Queer Maghrebi French

Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations

AvDenis M Provencher

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Del 44 i serien Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

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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 my 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 stake 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-06
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781781382790

Utforska kategorier

HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Denis M. Provencher is Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Affairs and Partnerships in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of French & Francophone Studies at North Carolina State University.

Recensioner i media

'Provencher’s Queer Maghrebi French: Languages, Temporalities, Transfiliations is a timely study that examines the largely overlooked cultural context of queer Maghrebi French and queer Maghrebi living in France ... Provencher’s book is a most original study that offers invaluable new insights into the fields of queer theory, lesbian and gay studies, queer linguistics, anthropology, migration and diaspora studies, and appears at a time when Europe, facing a crisis in migration, can no longer ignore oppressed sexual minorities crossing its borders.'Philippe Panizzon, International Journal of Francophone Studies

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgements ix Prologue: Sidi Jenih – Saint Genet: An Example of Queer Maghrebi French 1 Introduction: Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations 9 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 Taia’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 Epilogue: Queer Maghrebi French: Flexible Language and Activism 283 Bibliography 292 Index 307