Hybrid Anxieties - Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies

Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: Framing Queer Postcolonial Interventions after the War    
Part 1: Masculinity and Memory
1. Haunted Masculinity and the Wounds of War: Alain Resnais’s Muriel and Laurent Mauvignier’s The Wound    
2. “You’ll Never Give Me a Bad Conscience!”: Masculinity and Postcolonial Guilt in Caché    
Part 2: Queering Postcolonial Legacies
3. Eros and Eden: Pierre Guyotat and Queer Pleasures    
4. Queer Palimpsests and October 17, 1961: Memory Politics in Leïla Sebbar’s The Seine Was Red    
5. Queering Identity, Embracing In-Betweenness: Disidentification and Re-membering in Nina Bouraoui’s Tomboy    
Conclusion: Queer Postcolonial Entanglements    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    
 

About the author

C. L. Quinan is an assistant professor of gender studies in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Summary

Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War.

Product details

• Authors: C L Quinan, C. L. Quinan, C.L. Quinan, Christine Quinan
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781496224262
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2426-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories