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Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migrations: Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities

Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migrations: Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities

Provencher, Denis M.
Bouamer, Siham

Hardcover

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1793644861
ISBN13: 9781793644862
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 28 2021
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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