Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations

Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities

Denis M. Provencher, Siham Bouamer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4486-2 (ISBN)

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The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

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.

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.

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

2Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa’s L’armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
Olivier Le Blond

3Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity Across Abdellah Taïa’s Novels
Daniel Maroun

Part Two: Affective Migration

4He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa’s L’armée du salut
Siham Bouamer

5Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa’s Epistolary Writing
Ryan K. Schroth

6Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and Love
Jean-Pierre Boulé

Part Three: Postcolonial Temporalities

7Abdellah Taïa’s Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and Multitude
Thomas Muzart

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Co-Autor	Ralph Heyndels, Olivier Le Blond, Daniel Maroun
Zusatzinfo	10 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-7936-4486-1 / 1793644861
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4486-2 / 9781793644862
Zustand	Neuware