In this first edited collection in English on the Moroccan author, Abdellah Taia's Queer Migrations frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality. In contrast to critics that consider Taia to immigrate and integrate successfully to France as a writer and intellectual, Provencher and Bouamer argue that the author's writing is replete with elements of constant migration, "comings and goings," cruel optimism, flexible accumulation of language over borders, transnational filiations, and new forms of belonging and memory making across time and space. At the same time, his constantly evolving identity emerges in many non-places, defined as liminal and border narrative spaces where unexpected and transgressive new forms of transgressive filial belonging emerge without completely shedding shame, mourning, or melancholy.

About the Author

Denis M. Provencher is professor of French and Francophone studies and head of the department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona.

Siham Bouamer is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Sam Houston State University.

Book Information
ISBN 9781793644862
Author Denis M. Provencher
Format Hardback
Page Count 310
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 644g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 161mm * 29mm