Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

Tina Dransfeldt Christensen holds an MA in Islamic Studies from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a PhD in Cultural Encounters from Roskilde University, Denmark. She is currently an external lecturer at Roskilde University. She has published in peer reviewed journals and collections including Expressions maghrébines, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of North African Studies and Islamic Studies Journal.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Transcriptions and Translations
Introduction
1. Writing the self as a site of (queer) commitment
From “national allegory” to multidirectionality as a strategy of subversion
The dual function of self-narration
Queering the nation
2. Abdellah Taïa as author and activist
Breaking the silence
La génération du “je”
Homosexuality “à la marocaine”
3. Subverting “ethnographic” reading strategies
“Generation 54”: Beyond ethnography and acculturation
Nobody sees anybody: Driss Chraïbi’s Le Passé simple
Simply living a life of “deviance”: Abdellah Taïa’s L’Armée du salut
4. Writing transidentity in the language of the “other”
“Third Worldism” and French as language of resistance: The Souffles-Anfa¯s movement
Toward an ethics of bilingualism: Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Amour bilingue
“Poor” French as a strategy of resistance: Abdellah Taïa’s Un Pays pour mourir
5. Shame, silence and nation building
Gendered memories of political violence during the Years of Lead
Dialogue of suffering: Fatna El Bouih’s ?adith al-‘atmah
Taking revenge through love: Abdellah Taïa’s Infidèles

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography