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Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migrations : Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Provencher, Denis M.
- Series:
- After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taïa, Abdellah, 1973---Criticism and interpretation.
- Taïa, Abdellah.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Disillusion (Philosophy) in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reconsidering Abdellah Ta ï a's Queer Migration
- Framing Queer Migration and Diaspora for This Volume
- Part I: On Place and Non-Place
- Part II: Affective Migration
- Part III: Postcolonial Temporalities
- Part IV: New Directions and Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: "Sortir de tous les territoires": To Be a Racialized and Colonized Subject within France Today. Is There for Abdellah Ta ï a a There Where to Go and to Exist?
- Chapter 2: Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
- Geographical, Narrative, and Temporal Movements
- Fluid Masculinities as Movement
- Exoticization of the Arab Man and Reverse Exoticism
- Same-Sex Male Sexuality as Movement
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity across Abdellah Ta ï a's Novels
- Disidentifying from the Moroccan Man
- Sex and the City: Contact Zones and Performative Sexuality
- Chapter 4: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du Salut
- Toxic Familial Cruel Optimism
- Impassivity and Cruel Optimism
- Chapter 5: Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa's Epistolary Writing
- Homosexuality Explained: Familial Differences and Family Origins
- Family Secrets: Shame and Ambiguous Origins
- Who is Worthy of Love? A Mother's Shame
- Some Origins of Shame: Rape and Suicide
- Conclusion: Writing Origins and Queer Arab Shame
- Bibliography.
- Chapter 6: Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and Love
- Anger: Colonialism Enters the Family History
- Love
- The Political
- Lahbib: A Key Character for Reconciliation
- Chapter 7: Abdellah Taïa's Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and Multitude
- Leaving to Find One's Place: Taïa and the Aesthetic of Existence
- Distance as an Opportunity for Dialogue and the Rise of Multitude
- The Arab Spring or How to Become an Active Agent within a Resistance Collective
- Chapter 8: From the "Garçon du bled" to "Tintin's Dog": The Interplay between Race and Sex in Abdellah Ta ï a's Un pays pour mourir and Celui qui est digne d' ê tre aim é
- Un pays pour mourir
- Celui qui est digne d'être aimé
- Chapter 9: Abdellah Taïa's Transfilial Mythmaking and Unfaithful Realms of Memory
- Introduction: Global Cinema as an Example of Transgressive and Transfilial Mythmaking and Memory
- Postcolonial and Transfilial Sites of Memory and Mythmaking for the Everyday Queer
- Taïa's Transgressive and Transfilial Mythmaking and Realms of Memory
- Part IV: New Directions and Conclusions
- Chapter 10: The Voices of Reappropriation
- Chapter 11: Des hommes fatigués
- Chapter 12: Tired Men
- Note
- Conclusion: New Directions for Abdellah Ta ï a and the Field
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-7936-4487-X
- OCLC:
- 1250433940
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