Contested borders : queer politics and cultural translation in contemporary francophone writing from the Maghreb / William J. Spurlin.

"Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Main Author:	Spurlin, William J., 1954- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
Series:	Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Subjects:	Gay men's writings, North African (French) > History and criticism. Lesbians' writings, North African (French) > History and criticism. Sexual minorities in literature. Minorités sexuelles dans la littérature. Gay men's writings, North African (French) Lesbians' writings, North African (French) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Sexual/textual crossings : toward new representations of sexual dissidence in the Maghreb
Historical Antecedents : imperial crossings and same-sex desire between men in North Africa
Disruption, fragmentation, and alternative sites of memory : gender and sexual dissidence as forms of decolonisation in francophone post-independence literature in the Maghreb
New translations of masculinity and same-sex desire through (re)negotiating gender/sexual borders : Rachid O., Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Abdellah Taïa
Nina Bouraoui : further translations of sexual alterity through embodiment and intersectional crossings of identic, geopolitical, temporal, and generic borders
Migration and/as translation : cultural mediation and negotiation as ongoing struggles for the decolonisation of queer desire.