Writing Queer Identities in Morocco : Abdellah Taia and Moroccan Committed Literature (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Notes on Transcriptions and Translations Introduction 1. Writing the self as a site of (queer) commitment From "national allegory" to multidirectionality as a strategy of subversion The dual function of self-narration Queering the nation 2. Abdellah Taia as author and activist Breaking the silence La generation du "je" Homosexuality "a la marocaine" 3. Subverting "ethnographic" reading strategies "Generation 54": Beyond ethnography and acculturation Nobody sees anybody: Driss Chraibi's Le Passe simple Simply living a life of "deviance": Abdellah Taia's L'Armee du salut 4. Writing transidentity in the language of the "other" "Third Worldism" and French as language of resistance: The Souffles-Anfa?s movement Toward an ethics of bilingualism: Abdelkebir Khatibi's Amour bilingue "Poor" French as a strategy of resistance: Abdellah Taia's Un Pays pour mourir 5. Shame, silence and nation building Gendered memories of political violence during the Years of Lead Dialogue of suffering: Fatna El Bouih's ?adith al-'atmah Taking revenge through love: Abdellah Taia's Infideles Conclusion Notes Bibliography