Re: Muslims, Arabs Top France Bestseller List
- From: "felix sula" <jcwilhelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:41:48 GMT
It's odd isn't it that in the U.S. for years we tried to incorporate a so
called melting pot society and were
criticized for not allowing our immigrants to maintain a clear and precise
cultural identity. The idea that you are now a citizen in the greatest
explosion of innovation and invention, wealth and opportunity this world has
ever witnessed should be marginalized in the interest of an immigrants
feelings. That America was not willing to allow it's immigrants
to remain ignorant of it's ideals and aspirations but instead follow
Europe's lead and allow a salad bowl approach that allows {or condemns} it's
diverse émigré class keep intact the very culture they fled.
Perhaps Europe might not have been that keen on assimilation and we in the
states should reexamine the notion that all cultures are immensely
equivalant
As an aside I believe french culture looks smugly down on anything not
French.
"Alfred Kleine Beverborch" <Enzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Muslims, Arabs Top France Bestseller List
> http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-09/07/article05.shtml
>
> Boudjedia's novel "Little big Bougnoule" is one of the best
> literary works in France this year.
>
> By Hadi Yahmid, IOL Correspondent
>
> PARIS, September 7, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) - French writers of Arab
> and Muslim origin have proved their mettle over the years with
> best-selling novels and books, which are attracting growing
> readership in France.
>
> "Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer" (the council of Mr. Arthur
> Schopenhauer) by French-Iranian Yasmina Reza went to no. three in
> the bestseller list in France this year, according to a poll by the
> Ipsos Institute.
>
> Through a dialogue between a philosopher, his wife and a
> psychiatrist, Reza is trying to give readers a glimpse on her
> multifaceted life as a French-Iranian woman and how her Islamic
> roots helped enrich her literary style.
>
> Nina Bouraoui, of Algerian origin, has also left her indelible mark
> on the cultural scene this season with her fourth novel "Mes
> Mauvaises Pensees" (my bad thoughts).
>
> Bouraoui sheds light on how young French born to immigrant parents
> are caught between a rock and a hard place as they are trying to
> strike the right balance between their roots and French values.
>
> Bouraoui herself lived for 10 years (1970-80) in her father's
> homeland Algeria to fathom out the mysteries of her background.
>
> Last year, "Kiffe Kiffe Demain" (today like yesterday) by
> French-Algerian Faiza Guene, 19, topped the list of bestselling
> authors.
>
> Michel Houellebecq's "L'Impossibilite d'une ile" came first this
> year with 200,000 copies sold in less than two months.
>
> France's book market is booming from August to October every year.
> Some 663 literary works have been printed since August 15.
>
> Masterpieces
>
> "Little Big Bougnoule" by Nor Eddine Boudjedia, of Algerian origin,
> was chosen as one of the best literary books of the year though
> surprisingly it is the writer's debut in the country's literary
> landscape.
>
> Boudjedia masterfully gave a vivid picture of obstacles facing
> immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries and how they are required
> to fully integrate into French society sometimes at the expense of
> their Arab and Muslim identity.
>
> In his 220-page masterpiece, Boudjedia portrays the life of an
> Algerian who immigrated to France in the early 1950s.
>
> Despite painstaking efforts over a span of 50 years to integrate
> into society, he is still the same "Arab with dark complexion who
> is keen to fast in Ramadan and send some of his money every month
> to his family on the other side of the Mediterranean" in the eyes
> of his French neighbors.
>
> Prefacing his book, the writer says it is all about the story of
> his parents and consequently his own as immigrants in the European
> country.
>
> Though born in France with French values and culture instilled into
> him, the writer still feels that the French look down at him as a
> son of foreign immigrants.
.
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