Queer Maghrebi French

Denis M. Provencher is Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Affairs and Partnerships in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of French & Francophone Studies at North Carolina State University.

• List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgements ix Prologue: Sidi Jenih – Saint Genet: An Example of Queer Maghrebi French 1 Introduction: Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations 9 1 2Fik’s Coming out à l’orientale and “Coming out” of France 56 2 Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s Universal Performance of French Citizenship and Muslim Brotherhood 109 3 Abdellah Taia’s Queer Moroccan Family and Transmission of Baraka 147 4 Mehdi Ben Attia’s Family Ties, Temporalities, and Revolutionary Figures 195 5 Nacir, Tahar, and Farid: Identification, Disidentification, and Impossible Citizenship 239 Epilogue: Queer Maghrebi French: Flexible Language and Activism 283 Bibliography 292 Index 307

'Provencher’s Queer Maghrebi French: Languages, Temporalities, Transfiliations is a timely study that examines the largely overlooked cultural context of queer Maghrebi French and queer Maghrebi living in France ... Provencher’s book is a most original study that offers invaluable new insights into the fields of queer theory, lesbian and gay studies, queer linguistics, anthropology, migration and diaspora studies, and appears at a time when Europe, facing a crisis in migration, can no longer ignore oppressed sexual minorities crossing its borders.'Philippe Panizzon, International Journal of Francophone Studies