Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations ; 1. Authorship at a Crossroads; 2. Mehdi Charef and the Invention of Beur Writing; 3. Competing Visions of Minority Authorship; 4. Eyewitness Narratives and the Creation of the Beurette; 5. Rachid Djaïdani and the Shift from Beur to Banlieue Writing; 6. Revising the Beurette Label; 7. Sabri Louatah and the Collectif Qui Fait la France?; Works Cited ; Index.