Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations

Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities

AvDenis M. Provencher,Siham Bouamer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

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In this first edited collection in English on Abdellah Taïa, Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer frame the distinctiveness of the Moroccan author’s migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality. In contrast to critics that consider Taïa to immigrate and integrate successfully to France as a writer and intellectual, Provencher and Bouamer argue that the author’s writing is replete with elements of constant migration, “comings and goings,” cruel optimism, flexible accumulation of language over borders, transnational filiations, and new forms of belonging and memory making across time and space. At the same time, his constantly evolving identity emerges in many non-places, defined as liminal and border narrative spaces where unexpected and transgressive new forms of belonging emerge without completely shedding shame, mourning, or melancholy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-28
Mått:161 x 238 x 29 mm
Vikt:644 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793644862

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Denis M. Provencher is professor of French and Francophone studies and head of the department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona.Siham Bouamer is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Sam Houston State University.

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Introduction: Reconsidering Abdellah Taïa’s Queer MigrationDenis M. Provencher and Siham BouamerPart One: On Place and Non-Place1“Sortir de tous les territoires”: To Be a Racialized and Colonized Subject within France Today. Is There for Abdellah Taïa a There Where to Go and to Exist?Ralph Heyndels2Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa’s L’armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone IdentityOlivier Le Blond3Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity Across Abdellah Taïa’s NovelsDaniel MarounPart Two: Affective Migration4He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa’s L’armée du salutSiham Bouamer5Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa’s Epistolary WritingRyan K. Schroth6Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and LoveJean-Pierre BouléPart Three: Postcolonial Temporalities7Abdellah Taïa’s Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and MultitudeThomas Muzart8From