Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic ...
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This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a “modern coming out” narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations, that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy.Less
This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a “modern coming out” narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations, that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy.
Ika Willis
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199545544
- eISBN:
- 9780191720598
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545544.003.0014
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter explores Derrida's queer deconstruction of the father/son ‘couple’ Socrates and plato in the ‘Envois’ section of The Post Card. It argues that ‘Envois’ shows how the relationship with ...
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This chapter explores Derrida's queer deconstruction of the father/son ‘couple’ Socrates and plato in the ‘Envois’ section of The Post Card. It argues that ‘Envois’ shows how the relationship with antiquity is usually figured via the metaphor of filiation, as the disciplined transmission of legitimized knowledge across masculine generations. Placing Derrida's work in communication with that of Luce Irigaray on Eros in Plato's Symposium, Jacob Hale on leatherdyke daddy/boy practices, and Lee Edelman on ‘heteroreproductive futurity’, the chapter draws out the queer eroticism and anachronistic force of Socrates' and Plato's intergenerational coupling. Showing that Socrates and plato can be read as daddy/boy, rather than father/son, it argues for a relation to antiquity which takes pleasure in the anachronistic apparatus of mediation which, for Irigaray, is Eros itself.Less
This chapter explores Derrida's queer deconstruction of the father/son ‘couple’ Socrates and plato in the ‘Envois’ section of The Post Card. It argues that ‘Envois’ shows how the relationship with antiquity is usually figured via the metaphor of filiation, as the disciplined transmission of legitimized knowledge across masculine generations. Placing Derrida's work in communication with that of Luce Irigaray on Eros in Plato's Symposium, Jacob Hale on leatherdyke daddy/boy practices, and Lee Edelman on ‘heteroreproductive futurity’, the chapter draws out the queer eroticism and anachronistic force of Socrates' and Plato's intergenerational coupling. Showing that Socrates and plato can be read as daddy/boy, rather than father/son, it argues for a relation to antiquity which takes pleasure in the anachronistic apparatus of mediation which, for Irigaray, is Eros itself.
Kurt Flasch
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300204865
- eISBN:
- 9780300216370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300204865.003.0018
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter focuses on Meister Eckhart's inquisitorial trial in Cologne, Germany. Two of Eckhart's Dominican confreres, Hermann of Summo and William of Nidecke, opened the list of doctrinal errors ...
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This chapter focuses on Meister Eckhart's inquisitorial trial in Cologne, Germany. Two of Eckhart's Dominican confreres, Hermann of Summo and William of Nidecke, opened the list of doctrinal errors that accused him of being a heretic to the archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich II of Virneburg. It happened between August 1325 and September 1326; the episcopal inquisition initiated a trial. Some of Eckhart's errors comprised fifteen passages taken from the Book of Divine Consolation, others from his second commentary on Genesis and from his German sermons. Eckhart's brothers had found no fewer than forty-nine passages that were suspect of heresy. This chapter examines the ten main errors with which Eckhart was charged, including those relating to the concept of divine filiation, the relation between God and world, Trinity, divine birth, negative theology, the soul, universals, prayer, and interpretation of the Bible. It also considers how Eckhart justified his teachings that were attacked and whether he retracted anything.Less
This chapter focuses on Meister Eckhart's inquisitorial trial in Cologne, Germany. Two of Eckhart's Dominican confreres, Hermann of Summo and William of Nidecke, opened the list of doctrinal errors that accused him of being a heretic to the archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich II of Virneburg. It happened between August 1325 and September 1326; the episcopal inquisition initiated a trial. Some of Eckhart's errors comprised fifteen passages taken from the Book of Divine Consolation, others from his second commentary on Genesis and from his German sermons. Eckhart's brothers had found no fewer than forty-nine passages that were suspect of heresy. This chapter examines the ten main errors with which Eckhart was charged, including those relating to the concept of divine filiation, the relation between God and world, Trinity, divine birth, negative theology, the soul, universals, prayer, and interpretation of the Bible. It also considers how Eckhart justified his teachings that were attacked and whether he retracted anything.
Scarlett Baron
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693788
- eISBN:
- 9780191732157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693788.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, European Literature
Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s ...
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Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s travels through Normandy (home to Flaubert as well as Emma Bovary, Bouvard and Pécuchet) in the summer of 1925 and suggests that both the journey and the jottings reflect Joyce’s preoccupation with Flaubert and with issues of intertextuality during the early stages of his work on Finnegans Wake. The second section considers allusions to Flaubert in the Wake: these are read as knowing indications of a connection between the radical intertextuality deployed by Joyce in his final work and the precedent of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet.Less
Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s travels through Normandy (home to Flaubert as well as Emma Bovary, Bouvard and Pécuchet) in the summer of 1925 and suggests that both the journey and the jottings reflect Joyce’s preoccupation with Flaubert and with issues of intertextuality during the early stages of his work on Finnegans Wake. The second section considers allusions to Flaubert in the Wake: these are read as knowing indications of a connection between the radical intertextuality deployed by Joyce in his final work and the precedent of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198187271
- eISBN:
- 9780191719028
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187271.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the purpose and scope of the book. Victorian scientific and spiritualist writings often overlapped when describing how voices might linger beyond the ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the purpose and scope of the book. Victorian scientific and spiritualist writings often overlapped when describing how voices might linger beyond the grave, and the blurring of their vocabularies infiltrated everyday speech. A number of later critics have been reluctant to allow much to individual poets, choosing instead to concentrate on the overlapping forces that can impinge upon the creation and revision of their work. While McGann's poet is enmeshed by his ‘social and historical filiations’, the ‘filiations’ of Bloom's poet are recoverable only by mapping out his trammels at the hands of his poetic father. Both produce detailed arguments to support the idea that writers and their texts are productively multiple and divided against themselves. Both also investigate the extent to which influence can form not only one of the conditions of writing, but also one of its more or less explicit subjects.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the purpose and scope of the book. Victorian scientific and spiritualist writings often overlapped when describing how voices might linger beyond the grave, and the blurring of their vocabularies infiltrated everyday speech. A number of later critics have been reluctant to allow much to individual poets, choosing instead to concentrate on the overlapping forces that can impinge upon the creation and revision of their work. While McGann's poet is enmeshed by his ‘social and historical filiations’, the ‘filiations’ of Bloom's poet are recoverable only by mapping out his trammels at the hands of his poetic father. Both produce detailed arguments to support the idea that writers and their texts are productively multiple and divided against themselves. Both also investigate the extent to which influence can form not only one of the conditions of writing, but also one of its more or less explicit subjects.
IAN RUTHERFORD
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199245062
- eISBN:
- 9780191715129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245062.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The linguistic situation in Lycia was always complex, mirroring the complex history of the region. In the classical period, at least three languages are spoken: Lycian, Greek, and Aramaic. Lycian ...
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The linguistic situation in Lycia was always complex, mirroring the complex history of the region. In the classical period, at least three languages are spoken: Lycian, Greek, and Aramaic. Lycian existed in at least two forms, Lycian and ‘Milyan’, the former attested in a large number of inscriptions from the fifth and fourth centuries BC, the latter (also sometimes known as ‘Lycian B’), attested in two inscriptions which are apparently poetic. Lycian syntax influenced Greek language in the context of translation, for example, with respect to the preposition hrppi, filiation formulae, and word order.Less
The linguistic situation in Lycia was always complex, mirroring the complex history of the region. In the classical period, at least three languages are spoken: Lycian, Greek, and Aramaic. Lycian existed in at least two forms, Lycian and ‘Milyan’, the former attested in a large number of inscriptions from the fifth and fourth centuries BC, the latter (also sometimes known as ‘Lycian B’), attested in two inscriptions which are apparently poetic. Lycian syntax influenced Greek language in the context of translation, for example, with respect to the preposition hrppi, filiation formulae, and word order.
Ankhi Mukherjee
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804785211
- eISBN:
- 9780804788380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785211.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
T. S. Eliot’s and J.M. Coetzee’s lectures titled “What is a Classic?” seem to suggest that if the classical criterion is of vital importance to literary criticism, the classic in turn is constituted ...
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T. S. Eliot’s and J.M. Coetzee’s lectures titled “What is a Classic?” seem to suggest that if the classical criterion is of vital importance to literary criticism, the classic in turn is constituted by the criticism it receives down the ages. The chapter examines this co-dependence: the classic is that which survives critical questioning, and it in fact defines itself by that surviving. The chapter also examines the role of international literary criticism in mapping the time and space of a globalised English Studies.Less
T. S. Eliot’s and J.M. Coetzee’s lectures titled “What is a Classic?” seem to suggest that if the classical criterion is of vital importance to literary criticism, the classic in turn is constituted by the criticism it receives down the ages. The chapter examines this co-dependence: the classic is that which survives critical questioning, and it in fact defines itself by that surviving. The chapter also examines the role of international literary criticism in mapping the time and space of a globalised English Studies.
Ivone Margulies
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190496821
- eISBN:
- 9780190496852
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190496821.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person ...
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In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic reconstruction. In Person theorizes this figure’s protean temporality and revisionist capabilities, and it considers its import in terms of social representativity and exemplarity. Close readings of select, historicized examples define an alternate, confessional-performative vein to understand the self-reflexive nature of postwar and post-Holocaust testimonial cinemas. The book contextualizes Zavattini’s proposal that in neorealism everyone should act his own story in a sort of anti-individualist, public display (Love in the City and We the Women). It checks the convergence between verité experiments, a heightened self-critique in France, and the reception of psychodrama in France (Chronicle of a Summer and The Human Pyramid) in the late 1950s. And, through Bazin, it reflects on the quandaries of celebrity biopics: how the circularity of the star’s iconography is checked by her corporeal limits (Sophia: Her Own Story and the docudrama Torero!). In Person traces a shift from the exemplary and transformative ethos of 1950s reenactment toward the unredemptive stance of contemporary reenactment films such as Lanzmann’s Shoah, Zhang Yuan’s Sons, and Andrea Tonacci’s Hills of Chaos. It defines continuities between verité testimony (Chronicle and Moi un Noir) and later parajuridical films such as The Karski Report and Rithy Panh’s S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, suggesting the power of co-presence and in-person actualization for an ethics of viewership.Less
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic reconstruction. In Person theorizes this figure’s protean temporality and revisionist capabilities, and it considers its import in terms of social representativity and exemplarity. Close readings of select, historicized examples define an alternate, confessional-performative vein to understand the self-reflexive nature of postwar and post-Holocaust testimonial cinemas. The book contextualizes Zavattini’s proposal that in neorealism everyone should act his own story in a sort of anti-individualist, public display (Love in the City and We the Women). It checks the convergence between verité experiments, a heightened self-critique in France, and the reception of psychodrama in France (Chronicle of a Summer and The Human Pyramid) in the late 1950s. And, through Bazin, it reflects on the quandaries of celebrity biopics: how the circularity of the star’s iconography is checked by her corporeal limits (Sophia: Her Own Story and the docudrama Torero!). In Person traces a shift from the exemplary and transformative ethos of 1950s reenactment toward the unredemptive stance of contemporary reenactment films such as Lanzmann’s Shoah, Zhang Yuan’s Sons, and Andrea Tonacci’s Hills of Chaos. It defines continuities between verité testimony (Chronicle and Moi un Noir) and later parajuridical films such as The Karski Report and Rithy Panh’s S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, suggesting the power of co-presence and in-person actualization for an ethics of viewership.
David Greenstein
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804788335
- eISBN:
- 9780804789684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804788335.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Analysis of an extensive walking story shows the Zohar's awareness of the controversial nature of its commitment to walking. Rabbi Abba encounters the mystical devotees of Kfar Tarsha. Unlike ...
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Analysis of an extensive walking story shows the Zohar's awareness of the controversial nature of its commitment to walking. Rabbi Abba encounters the mystical devotees of Kfar Tarsha. Unlike Rashbi's disciples, they insist upon remaining in their “nest,” loyally following their forefathers. Exchanging teachings regarding circumcision, a ritual that literally transfers a sacred text to the human body of one's son, they achieve states of mystical union that are more intense than those usually achieved by the walking Companions. R. Abba is enchanted. Issues of filiation arise when Rashbi hears R. Abba's story. He punishes his unfaithful “son” and decrees exile for the villagers. In their refusal to disperse and wander beyond their space, they have apparently been guilty of the same sin as those who built the Tower of Babel. The sacrifice entailed by walking into mundane space must be borne with gnostic good humor.Less
Analysis of an extensive walking story shows the Zohar's awareness of the controversial nature of its commitment to walking. Rabbi Abba encounters the mystical devotees of Kfar Tarsha. Unlike Rashbi's disciples, they insist upon remaining in their “nest,” loyally following their forefathers. Exchanging teachings regarding circumcision, a ritual that literally transfers a sacred text to the human body of one's son, they achieve states of mystical union that are more intense than those usually achieved by the walking Companions. R. Abba is enchanted. Issues of filiation arise when Rashbi hears R. Abba's story. He punishes his unfaithful “son” and decrees exile for the villagers. In their refusal to disperse and wander beyond their space, they have apparently been guilty of the same sin as those who built the Tower of Babel. The sacrifice entailed by walking into mundane space must be borne with gnostic good humor.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and ...
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The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, and language and sexuality. I divide the Introduction into three parts wherein each one addresses a different driving thread -- language, temporalities and filiations -- of the overarching argument of the book.Less
The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, and language and sexuality. I divide the Introduction into three parts wherein each one addresses a different driving thread -- language, temporalities and filiations -- of the overarching argument of the book.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I present and analyze photographer and performance artist “2Fik” (pronounced “Toufik”), one of the Maghrebi French interlocutors from my fieldwork.I situate 2Fik as the first case ...
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In this chapter, I present and analyze photographer and performance artist “2Fik” (pronounced “Toufik”), one of the Maghrebi French interlocutors from my fieldwork.I situate 2Fik as the first case study because his personal story and creative work provide a very poignant example of the convergence of all three driving threads of the book – language, temporalities, filiations – and the emergence of a transfilial model that draws significantly on his mastery of electronic technologies.Less
In this chapter, I present and analyze photographer and performance artist “2Fik” (pronounced “Toufik”), one of the Maghrebi French interlocutors from my fieldwork.I situate 2Fik as the first case study because his personal story and creative work provide a very poignant example of the convergence of all three driving threads of the book – language, temporalities, filiations – and the emergence of a transfilial model that draws significantly on his mastery of electronic technologies.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I present the life and work of Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, who is the founder of three non-profit associations over the past several years: Les Enfants du Sida (2006), Homosexuels ...
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In this chapter, I present the life and work of Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, who is the founder of three non-profit associations over the past several years: Les Enfants du Sida (2006), Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F) (2010), and Musulman-es Progressistes de France (2012). He is also the author of Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011) and Le Coran et La Chair (2012), and co-author of Queer Muslim Marriage (2013). During the last few years, the French media have covered his same-sex marriage in Cape Town to husband Qiyaam Jantjies-Zahed in 2011, the publication of his book, Le Coran et La Chair in 2012, as well as and his creation of La Mosquée inclusive de l’Unicité, the first “gay friendly” or inclusive mosque in Paris, in 2012.Less
In this chapter, I present the life and work of Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, who is the founder of three non-profit associations over the past several years: Les Enfants du Sida (2006), Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F) (2010), and Musulman-es Progressistes de France (2012). He is also the author of Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011) and Le Coran et La Chair (2012), and co-author of Queer Muslim Marriage (2013). During the last few years, the French media have covered his same-sex marriage in Cape Town to husband Qiyaam Jantjies-Zahed in 2011, the publication of his book, Le Coran et La Chair in 2012, as well as and his creation of La Mosquée inclusive de l’Unicité, the first “gay friendly” or inclusive mosque in Paris, in 2012.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, transfiliations, and baraka (meaning “luck,” “chance,” “blessings” or what I’ll call “knowledge”) in the life and work of Abdellah ...
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In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, transfiliations, and baraka (meaning “luck,” “chance,” “blessings” or what I’ll call “knowledge”) in the life and work of Abdellah Taïa, one of the first Moroccan authors to write publicly about his own homosexuality and to depict homosexual Moroccan protagonists alongside a variety of other queer and non-queer characters in his autofiction.Less
In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, transfiliations, and baraka (meaning “luck,” “chance,” “blessings” or what I’ll call “knowledge”) in the life and work of Abdellah Taïa, one of the first Moroccan authors to write publicly about his own homosexuality and to depict homosexual Moroccan protagonists alongside a variety of other queer and non-queer characters in his autofiction.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, and transfiliations in the life and cinematic work of Mehdi Ben Attia, the first Tunisian screenwriter and director to depict a ...
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In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, and transfiliations in the life and cinematic work of Mehdi Ben Attia, the first Tunisian screenwriter and director to depict a self-identified gay male Tunisian protagonist alongside a variety of other “queer” and “non-queer” characters in his oeuvre. In part one, I examine excerpts from my 2010 one-on-one interview with Ben Attia in order to illustrate how his speech acts emphasize the importance of filiation, and in particular, being the eldest male child within the Maghrebi (French) family. His interview also exemplifies a flexible accumulation of language that queer Maghrebi French speakers use throughout this book as they “straddle” competing discourses and temporalities, and this emerges in full force in our conversation, and especially in reference to his discussion with his middle-class mother about his sexuality through his cinematic work.Less
In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, and transfiliations in the life and cinematic work of Mehdi Ben Attia, the first Tunisian screenwriter and director to depict a self-identified gay male Tunisian protagonist alongside a variety of other “queer” and “non-queer” characters in his oeuvre. In part one, I examine excerpts from my 2010 one-on-one interview with Ben Attia in order to illustrate how his speech acts emphasize the importance of filiation, and in particular, being the eldest male child within the Maghrebi (French) family. His interview also exemplifies a flexible accumulation of language that queer Maghrebi French speakers use throughout this book as they “straddle” competing discourses and temporalities, and this emerges in full force in our conversation, and especially in reference to his discussion with his middle-class mother about his sexuality through his cinematic work.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
I complete this study in this final chapter by turning to conversations with working-class and middle-class men I first met online through social media and chat sites during my six years of ...
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I complete this study in this final chapter by turning to conversations with working-class and middle-class men I first met online through social media and chat sites during my six years of fieldwork. Subsequently, I conducted over 50 hour-long, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with these self-identified homosexual men of Maghrebi and Maghrebi French origin. I draw on conversation and critical discourse analysis in this chapter to show how their stories of challenge and resilience often resonate with those analyzed in the previous chapters.Less
I complete this study in this final chapter by turning to conversations with working-class and middle-class men I first met online through social media and chat sites during my six years of fieldwork. Subsequently, I conducted over 50 hour-long, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with these self-identified homosexual men of Maghrebi and Maghrebi French origin. I draw on conversation and critical discourse analysis in this chapter to show how their stories of challenge and resilience often resonate with those analyzed in the previous chapters.
Denis M. Provencher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781781383001
- eISBN:
- 9781786944405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I provide a synthesis of the different categories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French subjects we have seen throughout the chapters -- those who are French born or émigrés, those ...
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In this chapter, I provide a synthesis of the different categories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French subjects we have seen throughout the chapters -- those who are French born or émigrés, those who are working class or middle class, and those who are authors and artists or in other “non-creative” life endeavors. I highlight the multiple paths to queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French diasporic subjecthood and stress that even those who have access to utopian spaces and transfilial scripts call upon them differently. Indeed, no single diasporic subject exists and each one’s path is unique. Moreover, while the individual’s education level or social class can affect orality, literacy, imagination, and even coherence in one’s story telling, this does not automatically predict how authors, artists and everyday speakers shape their stories with all or any of these. Indeed both the stories of creative and successful strategies and of failure illustrate that the contradictions in the French system limit mobility and integration. Finally, I draw on Raissiguier’s work on France’s sans-papières (undocumented women) and Fernando’s work on veiled French Muslim women working for human rights organizations, to conclude the book with a brief discussion of the status on the languages of racism, patriarchy, and homophobia in France and a call for new models of language on human rights in France and the European Union.Less
In this chapter, I provide a synthesis of the different categories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French subjects we have seen throughout the chapters -- those who are French born or émigrés, those who are working class or middle class, and those who are authors and artists or in other “non-creative” life endeavors. I highlight the multiple paths to queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French diasporic subjecthood and stress that even those who have access to utopian spaces and transfilial scripts call upon them differently. Indeed, no single diasporic subject exists and each one’s path is unique. Moreover, while the individual’s education level or social class can affect orality, literacy, imagination, and even coherence in one’s story telling, this does not automatically predict how authors, artists and everyday speakers shape their stories with all or any of these. Indeed both the stories of creative and successful strategies and of failure illustrate that the contradictions in the French system limit mobility and integration. Finally, I draw on Raissiguier’s work on France’s sans-papières (undocumented women) and Fernando’s work on veiled French Muslim women working for human rights organizations, to conclude the book with a brief discussion of the status on the languages of racism, patriarchy, and homophobia in France and a call for new models of language on human rights in France and the European Union.
Bruno Perreau
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027229
- eISBN:
- 9780262323383
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027229.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The Politics of Adoption argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the ...
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The Politics of Adoption argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bioethics, this model is more and more infused with representations of the fertile body. Adoptive parents are thus expected to behave as if they were biological parents. The Politics of Adoption maintains that gay marriage and adoption were controversial in Francebecausethey questioned the epistemological system that articulates citizenship and procreation, a system widely shared across the political spectrum. The Politics of Adoption also shows that adoption works as a metaphor for national belonging and frames debates and policy-making on immigration. Last, The Politics of Adoption evidences a new type of governance, based on rhetoric of risk, and highly monitored models of social behaviors, to which citizens are expected to voluntarily identify. The Politics of Adoptionincludes a study of parliamentary debates since 1945, as well as French and European case law. It follows the emergence of the concept of “parenting” in the mass media. It also throws light on social work by developing a discursive analysis of the various types of justification deployed by agents of the Child Social Welfare Agency when accrediting a parent for adoption.Less
The Politics of Adoption argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bioethics, this model is more and more infused with representations of the fertile body. Adoptive parents are thus expected to behave as if they were biological parents. The Politics of Adoption maintains that gay marriage and adoption were controversial in Francebecausethey questioned the epistemological system that articulates citizenship and procreation, a system widely shared across the political spectrum. The Politics of Adoption also shows that adoption works as a metaphor for national belonging and frames debates and policy-making on immigration. Last, The Politics of Adoption evidences a new type of governance, based on rhetoric of risk, and highly monitored models of social behaviors, to which citizens are expected to voluntarily identify. The Politics of Adoptionincludes a study of parliamentary debates since 1945, as well as French and European case law. It follows the emergence of the concept of “parenting” in the mass media. It also throws light on social work by developing a discursive analysis of the various types of justification deployed by agents of the Child Social Welfare Agency when accrediting a parent for adoption.
Grant Macaskill
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199684298
- eISBN:
- 9780191764943
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684298.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Theology
This chapter examines the development of the doctrine of theosis in the Greek patristic tradition and in modern Eastern Orthodox theology. The fully formed modern doctrine of theosis is considered ...
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This chapter examines the development of the doctrine of theosis in the Greek patristic tradition and in modern Eastern Orthodox theology. The fully formed modern doctrine of theosis is considered first, with attention paid to the variety of forms that this may take, before the chapter traces the development of concepts of participation and deification in the early Greek Fathers, from Justin Martyr to the Cappadocian Fathers. The study will highlight the problems with the common assumption that the Greek Fathers unwittingly assimilated biblical concepts to Platonic concepts of participation and will argue that filiation and adoption are instead the primary categories. In addition, the essential connection between participation and the ontology of the incarnation will be demonstrated.Less
This chapter examines the development of the doctrine of theosis in the Greek patristic tradition and in modern Eastern Orthodox theology. The fully formed modern doctrine of theosis is considered first, with attention paid to the variety of forms that this may take, before the chapter traces the development of concepts of participation and deification in the early Greek Fathers, from Justin Martyr to the Cappadocian Fathers. The study will highlight the problems with the common assumption that the Greek Fathers unwittingly assimilated biblical concepts to Platonic concepts of participation and will argue that filiation and adoption are instead the primary categories. In addition, the essential connection between participation and the ontology of the incarnation will be demonstrated.
Rachel Havrelock
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226319575
- eISBN:
- 9780226319599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226319599.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter focuses on biblical texts about Israel's neighbor nation Moab in an effort to show how location is more a determinant of identity than filiation. It is argued here that people are ...
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This chapter focuses on biblical texts about Israel's neighbor nation Moab in an effort to show how location is more a determinant of identity than filiation. It is argued here that people are associated with a place not necessarily because they are actually from that place but because they exhibit characteristics that support or underwrite what that place is supposed to be. This chapter will show how gender deviance in the Bible has come to be categorized as Moabite behavior. This categorization entails a description of Moabites as deviants, and also that political passivity by men and political assertion by women lands them in that space the Bible calls Moab.Less
This chapter focuses on biblical texts about Israel's neighbor nation Moab in an effort to show how location is more a determinant of identity than filiation. It is argued here that people are associated with a place not necessarily because they are actually from that place but because they exhibit characteristics that support or underwrite what that place is supposed to be. This chapter will show how gender deviance in the Bible has come to be categorized as Moabite behavior. This categorization entails a description of Moabites as deviants, and also that political passivity by men and political assertion by women lands them in that space the Bible calls Moab.
Anne Cadoret
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791011
- eISBN:
- 9780814764473
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791011.003.0016
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter considers how parents address the problem of filiation in France, where gay male parents are forced to differentiate between those who gestate and those who raise the child. Adoption ...
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This chapter considers how parents address the problem of filiation in France, where gay male parents are forced to differentiate between those who gestate and those who raise the child. Adoption often overlaps with assisted reproduction, as gay and lesbian adults conceive children through in vitro fertilization and various forms of surrogacy. Thus, the chapter looks into the issues of whether or not the women who donate an egg and/or carry a fetus are considered “mothers,” as well as other such problems of kinship. The cultural logic that governs the decisions gay men in France make regarding whom to recognize as parents yields insight into changing social norms and practices of parenthood, just as adoptive families shed light on normative forms of reproduction.Less
This chapter considers how parents address the problem of filiation in France, where gay male parents are forced to differentiate between those who gestate and those who raise the child. Adoption often overlaps with assisted reproduction, as gay and lesbian adults conceive children through in vitro fertilization and various forms of surrogacy. Thus, the chapter looks into the issues of whether or not the women who donate an egg and/or carry a fetus are considered “mothers,” as well as other such problems of kinship. The cultural logic that governs the decisions gay men in France make regarding whom to recognize as parents yields insight into changing social norms and practices of parenthood, just as adoptive families shed light on normative forms of reproduction.
