Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William J. Spurlin is Professor of English and Director of Teaching and Learning for Arts & Humanities at Brunel University London. Previously, he was Professor of English at the University of Sussex and directed the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & Cultural Change from 2006-2011. Professor Spurlin has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexual dissidence in Africa in his book, Imperialism within the Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa (2006), which examines the politics of sexuality that emerged in the years following apartheid in South Africa; in numerous articles in academic journals, such as Research in African Literatures (forthcoming), Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2013), Feminist Review (2010), and Études Anglaises (2008); and as chapters in edited collections, most recently in The Future of Postcolonial Studies (2015), The Wiley Companion to Translation Studies (2014), and Gendering Border Studies (2010). His other monograph is Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism (2009), and he has co-edited, with Jarrod Hayes and Margaret Higonnet, Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures (2010). Professor Spurlin chairs the Comparative Gender Studies Committee at the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), and he is a Section Editor for the journal Postcolonial Text.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sexual Textual Crossings: New Representations of Sexual Dissidence in the Maghreb 2. Historical Antecedents: Imperial Crossings and Same-Sex Desire in North Africa 3. Disruption, Fragmentation, and Alternative Sites of Memory: Gender and Sexual Resistance as Historical and Ongoing Forms of Decolonisation in Francophone Writing from the Maghreb 4. Queerness Refigured (I): New Negotiations of Gender Sexual Borders in the Maghreb 5. Queerness Refigured (II): Border Crossings and the Racialisation of North African Sexualities in Europe 6. Cultural Translation and as Queer Mediation: Refigured Contradictions, Displacements, and Intersectionalities in the Spaces Between Conclusion References Index
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sexual Textual Crossings: New Representations of Sexual Dissidence in the Maghreb 2. Historical Antecedents: Imperial Crossings and Same-Sex Desire in North Africa 3. Disruption, Fragmentation, and Alternative Sites of Memory: Gender and Sexual Resistance as Historical and Ongoing Forms of Decolonisation in Francophone Writing from the Maghreb 4. Queerness Refigured (I): New Negotiations of Gender Sexual Borders in the Maghreb 5. Queerness Refigured (II): Border Crossings and the Racialisation of North African Sexualities in Europe 6. Cultural Translation and as Queer Mediation: Refigured Contradictions, Displacements, and Intersectionalities in the Spaces Between Conclusion References Index
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