Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migrations (eBook, ePUB)

Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities
Redaktion: Provencher, Denis M.; Bouamer, Siham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793644879
• Artikelnr.: 62109148

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reconsidering Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migration
Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer
Part One: On Place and Non-Place
1 "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 Heyndels
2 Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut: The
Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
Olivier Le Blond
3 Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity Across
Abdellah Taïa's Novels
Daniel Maroun
Part Two: Affective Migration
4 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée
du salut
Siham Bouamer
5 Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa's Epistolary Writing
Ryan K. Schroth
6 Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and Love
Jean-Pierre Boulé
Part Three: Postcolonial Temporalities
7 Abdellah Taïa's Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and
Multitude
Thomas Muzart
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