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As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography Audiobook by Kaoutar Harchi
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 626373
Title: As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography
Author: Kaoutar Harchi
Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:15:56
Language: English
Release date: 03-07-23
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Politics, History, Social Science
Summary:
In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.
Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchis probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern France are ever-present reminders of the dangers from which her parents sought to shield her. When they transfer her to a private, Catholic middle schoolout of fear of Arab boys from their working-class neighborhoodKaoutar grows increasingly conscious of her differences, and her conflicted sense of self.
Notable events in her teensthe passing of a law in 2004 banning religious symbols from public schools; the 2005 deaths of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, which sparked riots against police brutalityunderscore the injustice of a society that sees Muslims not as equals but as a problem to solve. With elegant, affecting prose, As We Exist charts Kaoutars political and intellectual awakening, which would become the heart and soul of her work as a sociologist and writer.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 626373
Title: As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography
Author: Kaoutar Harchi
Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:15:56
Language: English
Release date: 03-07-23
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Politics, History, Social Science
Summary:
In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.
Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchis probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern France are ever-present reminders of the dangers from which her parents sought to shield her. When they transfer her to a private, Catholic middle schoolout of fear of Arab boys from their working-class neighborhoodKaoutar grows increasingly conscious of her differences, and her conflicted sense of self.
Notable events in her teensthe passing of a law in 2004 banning religious symbols from public schools; the 2005 deaths of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, which sparked riots against police brutalityunderscore the injustice of a society that sees Muslims not as equals but as a problem to solve. With elegant, affecting prose, As We Exist charts Kaoutars political and intellectual awakening, which would become the heart and soul of her work as a sociologist and writer.
Contact: [email protected]