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Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics) by William Spurlin Professor of English and Vice-Dean College of Business Arts & Social Sciences Brunel Univers... is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics) about?

Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through examining new representations of same-sex desire emerging in recent francophone autofictional writing from the Maghreb, where long-established traditions pertaining to gender and sexuality are brought into contact with new forms of gender and sexual dissidence, resulting from the inflection of globally circulating discourses and embodiments of queerness in North Africa, and from the experience of emigration and settlement by the writers concerned in France. The book analyses specifically how Franco-Maghrebi writers Rachid O., Abdellah Taïa, Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Nina Bouraoui foreground translation and narrative reflexivity around incommensurable spaces of queerness in order to index their crossings and negotiations of multiple languages, histories and cultures. By writing in French, Spurlin demonstrates that the writers are not merely mimicking the language of their former coloniser but inflecting a European language with discursive turns of phrase indigenous to North Africa, thus creating new possibilities of meaning and expression to name their lived experiences of gender and sexual alterity—

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Author

William Spurlin Professor of English and Vice-Dean College of Business Arts & Social Sciences Brunel Univers...

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786600813

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Romance, Humanities