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

• Main Author: Navarro-Ayala, Luis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
• Subjects: 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.

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 transcu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Garçonnière in Buenos Aires: The Queer Body as a Boundary Figure in "Frenchness": The Transnational Queer in Alfonso Hernández-Catá's El ángel de Sodoma
• 2. Othering the Contemporáneos: Frenchness, Mexicanness and Queerness
• 3. Moroccan Boys: Points of Resistance in Homosexual Tourism
• 4. Rachid O.'s Homosexual Awakening: The Allegorical Representation of the Blond-haired, Blue-eyed French Boy
• 5. Homoerotic Crossings: Corporeal Dis/Positions in Immigrations to Spain and France
• 6. The Queer Beur Look: Disidentification and Subversion in France
• 7. Queering the Football Field: Intersectionality and Transnationalism in the Maghreb.