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Shantytown Kid
Azouz Begag
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Description for Shantytown Kid
Paperback. An autobiographical novel that tells how Begag took flight on the wings of learning, growing up amid the multicultural complexities of contemporary France. Translator(s): Wolf, Naima. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264.
One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, This book is a bird. How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in this captivating autobiographical novel of growing up amid the multicultural complexities of contemporary France. Determined to leave behind the poverty of his shantytown life, Begag works to become a star pupil at the local primary school-earning the jealousy and rejection of his Arab playmates even as he contends with the anti-Arab racism of his French peers. Begag's moving and ... Read more
One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, This book is a bird. How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in this captivating autobiographical novel of growing up amid the multicultural complexities of contemporary France. Determined to leave behind the poverty of his shantytown life, Begag works to become a star pupil at the local primary school-earning the jealousy and rejection of his Arab playmates even as he contends with the anti-Arab racism of his French peers. Begag's moving and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
316 g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803262584
SKU
V9780803262584
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About Azouz Begag
Azouz Begag, widely acclaimed as both a novelist and a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), was appointed France's first minister for equal opportunities and was the nation's first cabinet minister of North African immigrant origin in 2005. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the sociopolitical essay Ethnicity and Equality: France in ... Read more
Reviews for Shantytown Kid
By writing what is in many ways a classic coming-of-age story, as reminiscent in spirit of Truffaut's Les Quatre Cents Coups as of any works that are specifically Arab or North African, Begag has successfully avoided producing a miserabiliste depiction of France's immigrant community. In this way, Shantytown Kid stands out from the ever growing genre of beur literature that ... Read more