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Gay in North African literature?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Kramer, Max |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | This chapter explores how Maghrebi writers of fiction, sandwiched between the use of the French language – providing access to a Western audience – and the reality of Muslim-majority locales, have reacted to this import of a different cultural discourse on sexuality. Various contemporary representatives of Maghrebi literature in French have mediated a homosexual reality in their fiction and the Muslim closet in which it is set while crucially picturing it from the first-person perspective. Some of their writings challenge, however, not only the local attitude toward same-sex relations but also notions of sex qua social identity motivated in the West both through the nineteenth-century medicalization of sexuality and the more recent minority thinking behind sexual liberation. Their writings show that the hybrid Berber-Arab-Muslim- French Mediterranean culture of the Maghreb may in fact have a much less fixed concept of the gendered Other than the West generally assumes. Indeed, the frequently unstable Maghrebi subjectivities staged in many of these narratives deconstruct the post-independence homophobic official discourses of the North African nation-states and the traditional segregation of the sexes, but also the polarized hetero- and homonormative identitary discourses which hail from the West and segregate not sexes but sexual orientations. Book Name: National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315597447-9&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 155 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 138 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315597447-9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-11-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective History and Philosophy of Science Maghrebi Segregation Sexuality North African Writings Fiction Muslim French |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
