Abdellah Taias Queer Migrations - Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities

The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

List of contents

Introduction: Reconsidering Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migration
Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer

Part One: On Place and Non-Place
1"Sortir de tous les territoires": To Be a Racialized and Colonized Subject within France Today. Is There for Abdellah Taïa a There Where to Go and to Exist?
Ralph Heyndels
2Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
Olivier Le Blond

3Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity Across Abdellah Taïa's Novels
Daniel Maroun

Part Two: Affective Migration
4He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut
Siham Bouamer

5Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa's Epistolary Writing
Ryan K. Schroth

6Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and Love
Jean-Pierre Boulé

Part Three: Postcolonial Temporalities

7Abdellah Taïa's Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and Multitude
Thomas Muzart

8From the "Garçon du bled" to Tintin's Dog: The Interplay between Race and Sex in Abdellah Taïa's Un pays pour mourir and Celui qui est digne d'être aimé
Philippe Panizzon
9Adbellah Taïa's Transflilial Myth Making and Unfaithful Realms of Memory
Denis M. Provencher


Part Four: New Directions and Conclusions
10The Voices of Reappropriation
Antoine Idier
11Des hommes fatigués
Abdellah Taïa
12 Tired Men
Abdellah Taïa translated by Denis M. Provencher

Conclusion: New Directions for Abdellah Taïa and the Field
Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer

About the author

Edited by Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer - Contributions by Ralph Heyndels; Olivier Le Blond; Daniel Maroun; Ryan K. Schroth; Jean-Pierre Boulé; Thomas Muzart; Philippe Panizzon; Antoine Idier and Abdellah Taïa

Summary

The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Denis M. Bouamer Provencher, Denis M. Bouhamer Provencher
• Assisted by: Siham Bouamer (Editor), Siham Bouhamer (Editor), Denis M. Provencher (Editor), Provencher Denis M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793644862
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-486-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Morocco, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Literature: history & criticism, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, Gender studies: transgender & intersex, Francophone;LGBT writers;Moroccan Literature;postcolonial