William J. Spurlin is Professor of English, Brunel University, London

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Sexual/Textual Crossings: Toward New Representations of Sexual Dissidence inthe MaghrebChapter 2: Historical Antecedents: Imperial Crossings and Same-Sex Desire between Menin North AfricaChapter 3: Disruption, Fragmentation, and Alternative Sites of Memory: Gender and SexualDissidence as Forms of Decolonisation in Francophone Post-IndependenceLiterature in the MaghrebChapter 4: New Translations of Masculinity and Same-Sex Desire through (Re)NegotiatingGender/Sexual Borders: Rachid O., Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Abdellah TaïaChapter 5: Nina Bouraoui: Further Translations of Sexual Alterity through Embodiment andIntersectional Crossings of Identic, Geopolitical, Temporal, and Generic BordersChapter 6: Migration and/as Translation: Cultural Mediation and Negotiation as OngoingStruggles for the Decolonisation

William Spurlin's Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb is a rigorously researched and critically incisive account of Franco-Maghrebi writing. Spurlin's intersectional analysis is equally attentive to geography, race, gender, sexuality, and language. Simultaneously invoking, departing from, and moving beyond the critical and creative archive of works from the region, the author's attention to new spaces of dissident sexualities leads to future directions for research in the area. Contested Borders is a must read for scholars in Postcolonial, Middle Eastern and North African, and Sexuality Studies.