{"product_id":"transforming-family","title":"Transforming Family","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTransforming Family\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ealways already\u003c\/i\u003e queer, Frelier opens up new spaces of agency for both family units and individuals who seek representation and fulfilling futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The novels analyzed in \u003ci\u003eTransforming Family\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the families they depict, resist classification and delink the legacies of colonialism from contemporary modes of being. As a result, these novels create trans- identities for their protagonists and contribute to a scholarly understanding of the becoming trans- of cultural production. As international political debates related to migration, the family unit, and the “global migrant crisis” surge, Frelier destabilizes governmental criteria for the “regrouping” of families by turning to a set of definitions found in the cultural production of members of the francophone, North African diaspora.","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243111928152,"sku":"9781496225092","price":59.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781496225092_7a2a8627-b01d-4bfb-9521-55f98bf55413.jpg?v=1783424732","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/transforming-family","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}