Transforming family : queer kinship and migration in contemporary Francophone literature /
Frelier, Jocelyn A.
Transforming family : queer kinship and migration in contemporary Francophone literature / Jocelyn A. Frelier - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] - (XX-264 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 237-255
One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of "trans-" families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders. In Transforming Family Jocelyn Frelier examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors in France, Morocco, and Algeria, including Azouz Begag, Nina Bouraoui, Fouad Laroui, Leïla Sebbar, Leïla Slimani, and Abdellah Taïa. Each novel contributes a unique argument about this alternate understanding of family, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality. Arguing that trans- families are always already queer, Frelier opens up new spaces of agency for both family units and individuals who seek representation and fulfilling futures.
9781496225092
Bouraoui, Nina (1967-....)
Slimani, Leïla (1981-....)
Sebbar, Leïla (1941-....)
Begag, Azouz (1957-....)
Laroui, Fouad (1958-....)
Taïa, Abdellah (1973-....)
بوراوي، نينا (1967-....)
سليماني، ليلى (1981-....)
العروي، فؤاد (1958-....)
الطايع، عبد الله (1973-....)
FAMILLE
EMIGRE
LITTERATURE MAGHREBINE D'EXPRESSION FRANCAISE
ROMAN
M843.92093552
Transforming family : queer kinship and migration in contemporary Francophone literature / Jocelyn A. Frelier - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] - (XX-264 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 237-255
One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of "trans-" families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders. In Transforming Family Jocelyn Frelier examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors in France, Morocco, and Algeria, including Azouz Begag, Nina Bouraoui, Fouad Laroui, Leïla Sebbar, Leïla Slimani, and Abdellah Taïa. Each novel contributes a unique argument about this alternate understanding of family, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality. Arguing that trans- families are always already queer, Frelier opens up new spaces of agency for both family units and individuals who seek representation and fulfilling futures.
9781496225092
Bouraoui, Nina (1967-....)
Slimani, Leïla (1981-....)
Sebbar, Leïla (1941-....)
Begag, Azouz (1957-....)
Laroui, Fouad (1958-....)
Taïa, Abdellah (1973-....)
بوراوي، نينا (1967-....)
سليماني، ليلى (1981-....)
العروي، فؤاد (1958-....)
الطايع، عبد الله (1973-....)
FAMILLE
EMIGRE
LITTERATURE MAGHREBINE D'EXPRESSION FRANCAISE
ROMAN
M843.92093552