Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb
The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of World War II, when independence movements began to gain momentum in these French colonies, the dominant national discourses attempted to define national identities by exclusion. One rallying cry from the 1930s was "Islam is my religion, Arabic is my language, Algeria is my fatherland."\ In this incisive postcolonial study, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine...
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The post-WWII independence cry of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), "Islam is my religion, Arabic is my language, Algeria is my fatherland," was countered by some of the region's Francophone novels, those demanding nation-building on the basis of inclusion, not exclusion. Hayes (French and Francophone studies, U. of Michigan) gathers together and analyzes these novelsworks that call for incorporating marginalized sexual practices. Instead of using queer theory to queer Maghrebian literature, Hayes suggests ways Maghrebian literature can add queer perspectives to postcolonial theories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgementsixA Note on TranslationsxiiiIntroduction1Part 1Allegories of Reading the Maghreb1.Reading and Tourism: Sexual Approaches to the Maghreb232.Moha the Theory Machine50Part 2Sex and Revolution3.Homosexuality (Un)veiled734.Skeletons in the Closet: Tahar Djaout's Betrayal of National Secrets965.In the Nation's Closets: Sexual Marginality and the Itinerary of National Identity1206.Sex on Fire: Mohammed Dib and the Algerian Revolution1367.The Haunted House of the Nation: Kateb Yacine's Nedjma148Part 3The Feminist Menace8.Becoming a Woman: Tahar Ben Jelloun's Allegory of Gender1659.Personalizing the Political, Politicizing the Personal: Assia Djebar's Feminist Rewriting of History18210.Women Come Out into the Nation: Djebar's Allegory of Marriage19811.Escaping the Identity Police: Leila Sebbar215Part 4Allegories of the Queer Nation12.The Joy of Castration: Childhood Narratives and the Demise of Masculinity24113.Allegories of the Queer Nation262Works Cited287Index299
