Transforming Family Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature.

Frelier, Jocelyn.

Transforming Family Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (287 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Technical Note -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Interlude 1 -- 1. Mothering beyond Borders -- 2. Queering Motherhood -- Interlude 2 -- 3. Estranged from the Father -- 4. Beginning Again -- Interlude 3 -- 5. Adoption -- 6. Brotherhood -- Postlude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Transforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors who imagine familial aspiration that is decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality.



9781496233653


Queer theory.
Kinship in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Algerian fiction (French)--History and criticism.
Moroccan fiction (French)--History and criticism.
French fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Families in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ637 / .T736 2022