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Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

Spurlin, William J.

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Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics

PhilosophyFiction AnthologiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1538168081
ISBN13: 9781538168080
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through examining new representations of same-sex desire emerging in recent francophone autofictional writing from the Maghreb.

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 North Africa, and from the experience of emigration and settlement by the writers concerned in France. The book analyses specifically how Franco-Maghrebi writers Rachid O., Abdellah Taïa, Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Nina Bouraoui foreground translation and narrative reflexivity around incommensurable spaces of queerness in order to index their crossings and negotiations of multiple languages, histories and cultures.

By writing in French, Spurlin demonstrates that the writers are not merely mimicking the language of their former coloniser but inflecting a European language with discursive turns of phrase indigenous to North Africa, thus creating new possibilities of meaning and expression to name their lived experiences of gender and sexual alterity-a form of (queer) translational praxis that destabilises received gender/sexual categories both within the Maghreb and in Europe.

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