Hybrid Anxieties
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2426-2 (ISBN)
Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War (1954–1962). C. L. Quinan argues that the war precipitated a dynamic in which a contestation of hegemonic masculinity occurred alongside a production of queer modes of subjectivity, embodiment, and memory that subvert norms. Innovations in literature and cinema were also directly impacted by the long and difficult process of decolonization, as the war provoked a rethinking of politics and aesthetics. The novels, films, and poetry analyzed in Hybrid Anxieties trace this imbrication of content and form, demonstrating how a postwar fracturing had both salutary and injurious effects, not only on bodies and psyches but also on artistic forms.
Adopting a queer postcolonial perspective, Hybrid Anxieties adds a new impulse to the question of how to rethink hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, and nationality, thereby opening up new spaces for considering the redemptive and productive possibilities of negotiating life in a postcolonial context. Without losing sight of the trauma of this particularly violent chapter in history, Hybrid Anxieties proposes a new kind of hybridity that, however anxious and anticipatory, emphasizes the productive forces of a queer desire to deconstruct teleological relationships between past, present, and future.
C. L. Quinan is an assistant professor of gender studies in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Framing Queer Postcolonial Interventions after the War
Part 1: Masculinity and Memory
1. Haunted Masculinity and the Wounds of War: Alain Resnais’s Muriel and Laurent Mauvignier’s The Wound
2. “You’ll Never Give Me a Bad Conscience!”: Masculinity and Postcolonial Guilt in Caché
Part 2: Queering Postcolonial Legacies
3. Eros and Eden: Pierre Guyotat and Queer Pleasures
4. Queer Palimpsests and October 17, 1961: Memory Politics in Leïla Sebbar’s The Seine Was Red
5. Queering Identity, Embracing In-Betweenness: Disidentification and Re-membering in Nina Bouraoui’s Tomboy
Conclusion: Queer Postcolonial Entanglements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Zusatzinfo | 6 photographs, 1 illustration, index |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2426-4 / 1496224264 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2426-2 / 9781496224262 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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