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Description of  Abdellah Ta a s Queer Migrations: Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

In this first edited collection in English on Abdellah Taa, Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer frame the distinctiveness of the Moroccan authors 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 Taa to immigrate and integrate successfully to France as a writer and intellectual, Provencher and Bouamer argue that the authors 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 belonging emerge without completely shedding shame, mourning, or melancholy. Read more