Contested borders queer politics and cultural translation in contemporary francophone writing from the Maghreb

Sexual/textual crossings : toward new representations of sexual dissidence in the Maghreb -- Historical Antecedents : imperial crossings and same-sex desire between men in North Africa -- Disruption, fragmentation, and alternative sites of memory : gender and sexual dissidence as forms of decolonisa...

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1. Verfasser: Spurlin, William J. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Rowman & Littlefield 2022
Schriftenreihe:Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics
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Zusammenfassung:Sexual/textual crossings : toward new representations of sexual dissidence in the Maghreb -- Historical Antecedents : imperial crossings and same-sex desire between men in North Africa -- Disruption, fragmentation, and alternative sites of memory : gender and sexual dissidence as forms of decolonisation in francophone post-independence literature in the Maghreb -- New translations of masculinity and same-sex desire through (re)negotiating gender/sexual borders : Rachid O., Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Abdellah Taïa -- Nina Bouraoui : further translations of sexual alterity through embodiment and intersectional crossings of identic, geopolitical, temporal, and generic borders -- Migration and/as translation : cultural mediation and negotiation as ongoing struggles for the decolonisation of queer desire
"Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia"--
Beschreibung:xiv, 247 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:9781786600813
978-1-78660-081-3