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Transforming family : queer kinship and migration in contemporary francophone literature / Jocelyn Frelier

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Frelier, Jocelyn A.
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Physical Description
xx, 264 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
A technical note: on quotes, block quotes, and translations -- Prelude: On the origins of this project, or literary criticism as feminist, autoethnographic work -- Introduction: Trans-Forming family: queer kinship and migration in French, Moroccan, and Algerian literature of the twenty-first century -- Interlude 1: On maternity, motherhood, and mothering -- Mothering beyond borders: transnational queer mother and child in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué (2000) -- Queering motherhood: bad mothers and murderous nannies in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) -- Interlude 2: On paternity, fatherhood, and fathering -- Estranged from the father: estrangement-bonds and the terrorist son in Leïla Sebbar's Mon cher fils (2009) -- Beginning again: transcultural contact and fatherhood in Azouz Begag's Salam Ouessant (2012) -- Interlude 3: On horizontal familial bonds and community -- Adoption: choosing family and coming-of-age in Fouad Laroui's Une année chez les Français (2010) -- Brotherhood: emancipatory fraternal bonds in Abdellah Taïa's Celui qui est digne d'être aimé (2017) -- Postlude: On hindsight and finales.
Summary
"Transforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by Francophone authors who illustrate alternate understandings of familial aspiration that are decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality"--
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9781496225092 hardcover
1496225090 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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