Azouz Begag: 'Le Gone du Chaaba'. Etude critique

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-572
Author(s):  
A. G. Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Azouz Begag

Bouger la banlieue: l’intégration en question par Azouz Begag

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-244
Author(s):  
Virginie Ems-Bléneau
Keyword(s):  
Azouz Begag

Guilt and Betrayal in the Works of Azouz Begag and Linda Lê

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi ◽  
Tess Do
Keyword(s):  
Azouz Begag

The motif of ‘crossings’ in selected works by Azouz Begag

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-237
Author(s):  
Pat Duffy
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Immigrant Child ◽  
The Third ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Azouz Begag

The French writer of Algerian origin, Azouz Begag, has long been interested in the reception in France of those with immigrant origins. Their treatment often continues to be that reserved for the ‘visitor’, even several generations down the line. Yet these ‘outsiders’, who are not expected to ‘stay’, no longer identify with the country of their ancestors. Their life journeys become characterised by often delicate negotiations in order to be accepted. In the light of this situation, we examine three of Begag’s autofictional works. The first of these is Le Gone du Chaâba (1986), the text for which he gained celebrity. It explores the world of a young Algerian boy in France in the 1960s confronted with a Francocentric school system largely dismissive of the immigrant child. The second text, Le Marteau pique-cœur (2004) reveals an adult destabilised by the collapse of his marriage and the loss of his father, while the third, Salam Ouessant (2012), shows him on holiday with his two daughters and struggling with single status. All three texts share common concerns about reference points in life and all three are linked by numerous ‘crossings’ featuring various kinds of movement – physical, cultural, linguistic and transitional.

Competing Visions of Minority Authorship

2016 ◽  
pp. 80-120
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Kleppinger
Keyword(s):  
African Descent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
North African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Special Expertise ◽  
Farida Belghoul ◽  
Television Journalists ◽  
Azouz Begag

This chapter examines two opposing viewpoints regarding minority authorship in France in the mid-1980s in the context of the aftermath of the Marche des Beurs period. In his interviews for his quasi-autobiographical novels Le gone du Chaâba (1986) and Béni ou le paradis privé (1988) Azouz Begag strongly promoted his special expertise as a representative of the beur population. He readily volunteered to educated his interviewers and viewers about life in France’s North African immigrant communities and rarely discussed his books in detail. Farida Belghoul, on the other hand, argued forcefully for an exclusively artistic reading of her novel Georgette! (1986). She attacked journalists who imposed an ethnic frame on her work and criticized other authors of North African descent of writing too simplistically. In the end Belghoul’s commentary did not attract television journalists and she only appeared on a few highly specialized radio shows. Begag’s arguments therefore reached a much wider audience and played a stronger role in contributing to how novels by authors from the beur population were read in the mid- to late-1980s.

Mémoires au soleil by Azouz Begag

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 92-92
Author(s):  
Edward Ousselin
Keyword(s):  
Azouz Begag
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