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La Fille Blonde, Chris Vola
I May Have A Problem But I'M Okay With That, Meg Hurtado
I May Have A Problem But I'M Okay With That, Meg Hurtado
The Messenger
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- A Lady Of Elegance, Josh Davis
Untitled, Audrey Giampietro
Deconstruction, Mai-Anh Tran
Removed, Liz Anaya
Concordia, Diana Mergiotti
On An Ostensibly Cold Winter's Night, Mai-Anh Tran
On An Ostensibly Cold Winter's Night, Mai-Anh Tran
The Messenger
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Beur Travel Writing: Tassadit Imache’S Algerie, Monika Siebert
Beur Travel Writing: Tassadit Imache’S Algerie, Monika Siebert
English Faculty Publications
The particular cultural positioning described as the beur predicament and often summed up in the phrase “belonging neither here nor there,” is clearly a result of French colonial history. As such, it hardly refers to subjects able or willing to assume the vantage point of the classic European travel narrative or to employ its poetics. Beurs are children of North African immigrants (primarily from Algeria, but also Morocco and Tunisia) who arrived in France after the Second World War to work in the developing auto industries. While entitled to French citizenship (born in pre-independence Algeria, their parents are French subjects), …