Transforming family queer kinship and migration in contemporary francophone literature / Jocelyn A. Frelier.

Contents A technical note: on quotes, block quotes, and translations -- Prelude: On the origins of this project, or literary criticism as feminist, autoethnographic work -- Introduction: Trans-Forming family: queer kinship and migration in French, Moroccan, and Algerian literature of the twenty-first century -- Interlude 1: On maternity, motherhood, and mothering -- Mothering beyond borders: transnational queer mother and child in Nina Bouraoui's Gar©ʹon manqu©♭ (2000) -- Queering motherhood: bad mothers and murderous nannies in Le©¿la Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) -- Interlude 2: On paternity, fatherhood, and fathering -- Estranged from the father: estrangement-bonds and the terrorist son in Le©¿la Sebbar's Mon cher fils (2009) -- Beginning again: transcultural contact and fatherhood in Azouz Begag's Salam Ouessant (2012) -- Interlude 3: On horizontal familial bonds and community -- Adoption: choosing family and coming-of-age in Fouad Laroui's Une ann©♭e chez les Fran©ʹais (2010) -- Brotherhood: emancipatory fraternal bonds in Abdellah Ta©¿a's Celui qui est digne d'©®tre aim©♭ (2017) -- Postlude: On hindsight and finales.
Abstract "Transforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by Francophone authors who illustrate alternate understandings of familial aspiration that are decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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