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To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil

To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil

Bellil, Samira
McNair, Lucy R.
Hargreaves, Alec G.

Paperback

Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

Biographies GeneralWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803213565
ISBN13: 9780803213562
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghettos. From such a corner comes the story of Samira Bellil, who by raising her voice and telling her tale broke the code of silence imposed by many in her immigrant community and the willful ignorance of society at large. In this book, Bellil describes her life in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. The child of Algerian parents, she was fostered by a Belgian family until the age of five while her father was in prison. Bellil returned to a violent home and grew up to rebel against an increasingly repressive environment. Gang-raped at fourteen and then raped again some years later, she maintained her silence until she discovered that two friends had shared her fate at the hands of the same gang.

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