Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment (PSGE)
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Frenchness in the Latin American Imaginary
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Exoticization of Brown Bodies: Strategic Confusion in North Africa
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Transcultural Information Media and Technology in Morocco
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queering Transcultural Encounters
Book Subtitle: Bodies, Image, and Frenchness in Latin America and North Africa
Authors: Luis Navarro-Ayala
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92315-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92314-7Published: 28 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06404-4Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92315-4Published: 10 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7750
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 186
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Culture, Queer Theory, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature