Queering North African Subjectivities
FREN 392.401
also offered as: AFRC 392, COML 393, GSWS 392
instructor(s):
Monday 2-5:00pm
This seminar will explore the ways in which literary and visual
representations of sexual difference and gender roles disrupt the cultural
imagination of everyday life in North Africa and its Diasporas. Special
attention will be given to representations of Arab women and queer
subjectivities as sites of resistance against dominant masculinity. We will
analyze the ways in which representations of gender have allowed for a
redeployment of power, a reconfiguration of politics of resistance, and the
redrawing of longstanding images of Islam in France. Finally, we will
question how creations that straddle competing cultural traditions, memories
and material conditions can queer citizenship. Course taught in English.
fulfills requirements
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