William J. Spurlin

Contested Borders

Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2028
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781786600820
• ISBN-10: 178660082X
• Artikelnr.: 48697390

Autorenporträt

By William J Spurlin

Inhaltsangabe

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