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Men in the middle: Masculinity in North African Francophone literatures and cultures.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Men in the middle: Masculinity in North African Francophone literatures and cultures./
Author:	Jacobs, Brian Todd.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	240 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3729653
ISBN:	9781339156088

Men in the middle: Masculinity in North African Francophone literatures and cultures.
Jacobs, Brian Todd.

Men in the middle: Masculinity in North African Francophone literatures and cultures. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 240 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2015.

Men in the Middle examines disparate representations of masculinity in North African Francophone literature, photography, film, and culture from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with my analysis of Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable and La Nuit sacree, I show that gender is not only a social phenomenon that can be constructed and deconstructed, but that there are consequences when one's gender does not coincide with one's biological sex. In analyzing the two novels, I examine how masculinity and maleness are defined in Moroccan society through Ahmed/Zahra's gender performance. I then study Moroccan author, Abdellah Taia, and his oeuvre, in which he confronts gender and heteronormative stereotypes, demonstrating that the North African Arab man does not always represent the conventional idea of hegemonic masculinity. As the first openly gay author from Morocco, Taia uses his writing to assert his own sense of being and to show that the formerly constricting idea of the Arab man is evolving in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9781339156088Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

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