Queering Transcultural Encounters Bodies, Image, and Frenchness in Latin America and North Africa /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Navarro-Ayala, Luis (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
• Θέματα: Human body-Social aspects.; Culture.; Queer theory.; Latin American literature.; African literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Sociology of the Body.; Sociology of Culture.; Queer Theory.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; African Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XIV, 186 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319923154
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92315-4

In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected with space. Through a transcultural and intersectional approach to bodily representations, socioeconomic conditions, and postcolonial politics, Navarro-Ayala analyzes queerness and Frenchness in narratives from North Africa and Latin America, revealing that Frenchness is coded to represent a sexually deviant "Other." France and Frenchness, in two distinct regions of the global South, have come to represent an imagined queer space enabling sexual exploration, even in social conditions that would have otherwise prevented queer agency. .