Bibliograph

Queering Transcultural Encounters, Bodies, Image, and Frenchness in Latin America and North Africa, by Luis Navarro-Ayala

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Queering Transcultural Encounters, Bodies, Image, and Frenchness in Latin America and North Africa, by Luis Navarro-Ayala

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Queering Transcultural Encounters

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097068720

Responsibility statement

by Luis Navarro-Ayala

Series statement

Springer eBooks.Springer eBooksPalgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment

Sub title

Bodies, Image, and Frenchness in Latin America and North Africa

Summary

In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected with space. Through a transcultural and intersectional approach to bodily representations, socioeconomic conditions, and postcolonial politics, Navarro-Ayala analyzes queerness and Frenchness in narratives from North Africa and Latin America, revealing that Frenchness is coded to represent a sexually deviant “Other.” France and Frenchness, in two distinct regions of the global South, have come to represent an imagined queer space enabling sexual exploration, even in social conditions that would have otherwise prevented queer agency.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. The Garçonnière in Buenos Aires: The Queer Body as a Boundary Figure in “Frenchness”: The Transnational Queer in Alfonso Hernández-Catá’s El ángel de Sodoma -- 2. Othering the Contemporáneos: Frenchness, Mexicanness and Queerness -- 3. Moroccan Boys: Points of Resistance in Homosexual Tourism -- 4. Rachid O.’s Homosexual Awakening: The Allegorical Representation of the Blond-haired, Blue-eyed French Boy -- 5. Homoerotic Crossings: Corporeal Dis/Positions in Immigrations to Spain and France -- 6. The Queer Beur Look: Disidentification and Subversion in France -- 7. Queering the Football Field: Intersectionality and Transnationalism in the Maghreb

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