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Contested Borders - Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (Hardcover)
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Contested Borders - Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
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Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities
in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb where
gender/sexual politics have emerged under a different set of
historical, material, and ideological conditions compared with
sub-Sahara Africa, which has been the focus of much of the
scholarship on African sexualities. It examines new representations
of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing,
memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, 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 Africa, and from the
experience of emigration and settlement by the writers concerned in
France. The book analyses how such writers as Rachid O., Abdellah
Taia, Eyet Chekib Djaziri, Nina Bouraoui, foreground translation
and narrative reflexivity around incommensurable spaces of
queerness in order to index their crossings and negotiations of
multiple languages, histories, cultures. By writing in French, it
argues that these writers are not merely mimicking the language of
their former coloniser, but inflecting a European language with
vocabularies and turns of phrase indigenous to North Africa, thus
creating new possibilities of meaning and expression to name their
lived experience of gender and sexual otherness-a form of (queer)
translational praxis that destabilises received gender/sexual
categories both within the Maghreb and in Europe.
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