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Transforming family : queer kinship and migration in contemporary francophone literature / Jocelyn A. Frelier.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Frelier, Jocelyn A., author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families in literature.
French fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
French fiction.
Moroccan fiction (French)--History and criticism.
Moroccan fiction (French).
Algerian fiction (French)--History and criticism.
Algerian fiction (French).
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Queer theory.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Contents:
A technical note: on quotes, block quotes, and translations
Prelude: On the origins of this project, or literary criticism as feminist, autoethnographic work
Introduction: Trans-Forming family: queer kinship and migration in French, Moroccan, and Algerian literature of the twenty-first century
Interlude 1: On maternity, motherhood, and mothering
Mothering beyond borders: transnational queer mother and child in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué (2000)
Queering motherhood: bad mothers and murderous nannies in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016)
Interlude 2: On paternity, fatherhood, and fathering
Estranged from the father: estrangement-bonds and the terrorist son in Leïla Sebbar's Mon cher fils (2009)
Beginning again: transcultural contact and fatherhood in Azouz Begag's Salam Ouessant (2012)
Interlude 3: On horizontal familial bonds and community
Adoption: choosing family and coming-of-age in Fouad Laroui's Une année chez les Français (2010)
Brotherhood: emancipatory fraternal bonds in Abdellah Taïa's Celui qui est digne d'être aimé (2017)
Postlude: On hindsight and finales.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781496233653 (electronic bk.)
1496233654 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
40031335950
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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