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Tina Dransfeldt Christensen - Writing Queer Identities in Morocco, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2021

Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

Av Tina Dransfeldt Christensen

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This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa's art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco.Placing key novels such as Salvation Army and Infidels in dialogue with Moroccan writers including Driss Chraïbi and Abdelkebir Khatibi, she shows how Taïa draws upon a long tradition of politically committed art in Morocco to subvert traditional notions of heteronormativity. By giving space to silenced or otherwise marginalised voices, she shows how his writings offer a powerful critique of discourses of class, authenticity, culture and nationality in Morocco and North Africa.
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Tina Dransfeldt Christensen holds an MA in Islamic Studies from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a PhD in Cultural Encounters from Roskilde University, Denmark. She is currently an external lecturer at Roskilde University. She has published in peer reviewed journals and collections including Expressions maghrébines, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of North African Studies and Islamic Studies Journal.

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Writing Queer Identities in Morocco tackles very significant aspects of Moroccan literature and society. Taïa's writing is suggestively related to crucial moments and authors since colonial times, such as Chraïbi and Khatibi, or to prison testimonies of the Years of Lead. In writing the self as an act of (queer) commitment and questioning any readily established identity categories, Taïa becomes one of the key voices, literally and politically, of the future of Morocco, that necessarily has to be queer.

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