Queer Nations Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb

Name: Queer Nations Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb
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ISBN: 9780226321066

ISBN-10: 0226321061

ISBN-13: 9780226321066

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jarrod Hayes

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The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of World War II, when independence movements began to gain momentum in these French colonies, the dominant national discourses attempted to define national identities by exclusion. One rallying cry from the 1930s was "Islam is my religion, Arabic is my language, Algeria is my fatherland." In this incisive postcolonial study, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine how Francophone novelists from the Maghreb engaged in a diametric nation-building project. Their works imagined a diverse nation peopled by those who were excluded by the dominant political discourses,…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.132

Jarrod Hayes is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Georgia Institute of Technology.



Acknowledgements


A Note on Translations


Introduction



Allegories of Reading the Maghreb



Reading and Tourism: Sexual Approaches to the Maghreb



Moha the Theory Machine



Sex and Revolution



Homosexuality (Un)veiled



Skeletons in the Closet: Tahar Djaout's Betrayal of National Secrets



In the Nation's Closets: Sexual Marginality and the Itinerary of National Identity



Sex on Fire: Mohammed Dib and the Algerian Revolution



The Haunted House of the Nation: Kateb Yacine's Nedjma



The Feminist Menace



Becoming a Woman: Tahar Ben Jelloun's Allegory of Gender



Personalizing the Political, Politicizing the Personal: Assia Djebar's Feminist Rewriting of History



Women Come Out into the Nation: Djebar's Allegory of Marriage



Escaping the Identity Police: Leila Sebbar



Allegories of the Queer Nation



The Joy of Castration: Childhood Narratives and the Demise of Masculinity



Allegories of the Queer Nation


Works Cited


Index