Queer Maghrebi French : language, temporalities, transfiliations / Denis M. Provencher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Provencher, Denis M., author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 44.

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Biography.

Gay men.

Gay men--France--Biography.

North Africans--France--Biography.

North Africans.

Gender identity--France.

Gender identity.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 314 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French-language data from the author's ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions, including performance art and photography. Films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora slake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a "modern coming out" narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the Western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 2Fik's Coming out à l'orientale and "Coming out" of France 56

2 Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed's Universal Performance of French Citizenship and Muslim Brotherhood 109

3 Abdellah Taïa's Queer Moroccan Family and Transmission of Baraka 147

4 Mehdi Ben Attia's Family Ties, Temporalities, and Revolutionary Figures 195

5 Nacir, Tahar, and Farid: Identification, Disidentification, and Impossible Citizenship 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-306) and index.

ISBN:

1781382794

9781781382790

9781781383001

1781383006

OCLC:

930829156