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.

Sommario

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

2 Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
Olivier Le Blond

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

Part Two: Affective Migration

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

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

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

Part Three: Postcolonial Temporalities

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

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Info autore

Denis M. Provencher is professor of French and Francophone studies and head of the department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona. Siham Bouamer is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Sam Houston State University.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Denis M. Bouamer Provencher, Denis M. Bouhamer Provencher
• Con la collaborazione di: Siham Bouamer (Editore), Siham Bouhamer (Editore), Denis M. Provencher (Editore), Provencher Denis M. (Editore)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793644862
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-486-2
• Pagine: 310
• Serie: After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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