Hybrid Anxieties - Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies (Paperback)

Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). C. L. Quinan argues that the war precipitated a dynamic in which a contestation of hegemonic masculinity occurred alongside a production of queer modes of subjectivity, embodiment, and memory that subvert norms. Innovations in literature and cinema were also directly impacted by the long and difficult process of decolonization, as the war provoked a rethinking of politics and aesthetics. The novels, films, and poetry analyzed in Hybrid Anxieties trace this imbrication of content and form, demonstrating how a postwar fracturing had both salutary and injurious effects, not only on bodies and psyches but also on artistic forms. Adopting a queer postcolonial perspective, Hybrid Anxieties adds a new impulse to the question of how to rethink hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, and nationality, thereby opening up new spaces for considering the redemptive and productive possibilities of negotiating life in a postcolonial context. Without losing sight of the trauma of this particularly violent chapter in history, Hybrid Anxieties proposes a new kind of hybridity that, however anxious and anticipatory, emphasizes the productive forces of a queer desire to deconstruct teleological relationships between past, present, and future.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	C.L. Quinan
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-2426-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-4962-2426-4
Barcode:	9781496224262

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