Queering Transcultural Encounters

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.

Presents a highly interdisciplinary approach that draws on queer studies, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, among other fields An intersectional, postcolonial investigation of transnational understandings of queerness and queer bodies Explores how Frenchness became tied to sexual "deviance" in two distinct regions of the Global South

Autorentext

Luis Navarro-Ayala is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin, USA. His research explores questions of gender, queerness, body image in transcultural media and technology, race, and ethnicity in Francophone and Latin American contexts.

Inhalt

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.