Immigration and Identity in Beur Fiction

by Hargreaves, Alec G.

• ISBN13: 9781859731482
• ISBN10: 1859731481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Narrative works by second-generation Maghrebis in France, popularly known as Beurs, are a vibrant part of the rapidly growing field of post-colonial literature. This expanded and updated edition of Alec Hargreaves' ground-breaking study combines careful analysis of the formal structures of Beur fiction with a wealth of insights derived from interviews with the authors and extensive access to unpublished writings. First published in hardback in 1991, the book is now being produced in paperback to cater for the high level of interest expressed in the hardback edition.

Author Biography

Alec G. Hargreaves is a Professor of French, at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii	(1)
Glossary of Foreign Terms	ix	(1)
Preface to the Second Edition	x
Introduction	1	(8)
1 History and Biography	9	(27)
1.1 Worlds of Experience	9	(7)
1.2 Marks of Identity	16	(10)
1.3 Into Print	26	(10)
2 Autobiography and Fiction	36	(52)
2.1 Names and Titles	36	(12)
2.2 Time and Space	48	(9)
2.3 Borrowings and Inventions	57	(16)
2.4 Attenuations and Omissions	73	(15)
3 I, We, You, They	88	(56)
3.1 Viewpoint	88	(8)
3.2 Dialogism	96	(19)
3.3 Intertextuality	115	(12)
3.4 Audience	127	(17)
4 Past, Present and Future	144	(23)
4.1 Beginnings	144	(10)
4.2 Deictics	154	(10)
4.3 Endings	164	(3)
5 `Beur' Writers in the 1990s	167	(16)
5.1 Naming and Positioning	167	(6)
5.2 Reception and Evaluation	173	(10)
Select Bibliography	183	(11)
Index	194