Alumna Kathryn Kleppinger (AB, MA 2004) has published with Liverppol University Press Branding the 'Beur' Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (December 30, 2015), which examines the ways in which the French media has elided the thematic and stylistic diversity of so many minority French authors over the last three decades.
Branding the Beur Author focuses on the mainstream media promotion of literature written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France (often called beurs). ... But the interests of journalists looking for sensational subject matter also heavily shape the promotion and reception of these novels: only the ‘beur’ authors who employ a realist style to write about the challenges faced by the North African immigrant population in France—and who engage on-air with French identity politics and immigration—receive multiple invitations to participate in interviews. ...
Kathryn Kleppinger is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at George Washington University. She received her PhD from NYU after completing her degrees from Bryn Mawr.