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OverviewThis book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a “modern coming out” narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations, that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Denis M ProvencherPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 44 ISBN: 9781781382790ISBN 10: 1781382794 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 06 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements ixPrologue: Sidi Jenih – Saint Genet: An Example of Queer Maghrebi French 1Introduction: Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations 9 1 2Fik’s Coming out à l’orientale and “Coming out” of France 562 Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s Universal Performance of French Citizenship and Muslim Brotherhood 1093 Abdellah Taia’s Queer Moroccan Family and Transmission of Baraka 1474 Mehdi Ben Attia’s Family Ties, Temporalities, and Revolutionary Figures 1955 Nacir, Tahar, and Farid: Identification, Disidentification, and Impossible Citizenship 239Epilogue: Queer Maghrebi French: Flexible Language and Activism 283 Bibliography 292Index 307ReviewsThis book is a most timely and original analysis of the ways in which Queer subjects straddling French and Maghrebi languages, religions and cultures construct themselves when they come out to their family, their friends, or an international public. With his concept of transfiliation, Provencher provides us with a precious tool to rethink globalizing queer kinships. Professor Mireille Rosello, University of Amsterdam This book is a most timely and original analysis of the ways in which Queer subjects straddling French and Maghrebi languages, religions and cultures construct themselves when they come out to their family, their friends, or an international public. With his concept of transfiliation, Provencher provides us with a precious tool to rethink globalizing queer kinships. Professor Mireille Rosello, University of Amsterdam Mixing ethnography and literary and cultural studies, Queer Maghrebi French constructs a stunningly elaborate nexus of theoretical concerns and analytical frameworks-queer theory, postcolonial studies, French lesbian and gay studies, queer temporality, critical race and ethnicity studies, the anthropology of kinship, gay linguistics, and cultural geography-to examine the intricate ways in which artists and writers of North African descent negotiate the competing claims of secular Republicanism and familial and religious ties Mixing ethnography and literary and cultural studies, Queer Maghrebi French constructs a stunningly elaborate nexus of theoretical concerns and analytical frameworks-queer theory, postcolonial studies, French lesbian and gay studies, queer temporality, critical race and ethnicity studies, the anthropology of kinship, gay linguistics, and cultural geography-to examine the intricate ways in which artists and writers of North African descent negotiate the competing claims of secular Republicanism and familial and religious ties. Professor Jarrod Hayes, University of Michigan Author InformationDenis M Provencher is is Associate Professor of French and Intercultural Communication at the University of Marlyand, Baltimore County and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary French Civilization. He is the author of Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (Ashgate Publishing, 2007) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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