Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2014)
Artes

Figues de Barbarie and French Figs: Hybridity in the Beur imaginary

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Silvia Nagy-Zekmi
Villanova University, Philadelphia

Published 01-12-2014

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Nagy-Zekmi, S. (2014). Figues de Barbarie and French Figs: Hybridity in the Beur imaginary. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 15(1-2), 146–158. Retrieved from https://ojs.ppke.hu/verbum/article/view/462
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Abstract

The article analyzes the multiple meanings of the border as a textual construct in Beur writing represented by Leila Sebbar, Azouz Begag, Leila Houari, Farida Belghoul by focusing on hybridity as a theoretical tool in the representation of the collective identity of the Beur defined by migration through discourses that emerge from unequal power relations in loci of cultural contact.

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