{"product_id":"contested-borders-1","title":"Contested Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57256735015256,"sku":"9781538168080","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/contested-borders-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}