Sexualized Collaborations and the Politics of Ghostwriting in Franco-Arab Literature: From Paul Bowles to Tout le monde aime Mohamed
AbstractIn the last few decades, the landscape of Franco-Arab fiction has seen a great many authorship scandals, in which French non-Arab authors have impersonated Arabs and found publishing success. In this essay, I revisit these scandals while focusing on a recent “autobiographical” novel that raised suspicions of ghostwriting: 2011’s Tout le monde aime Mohamed (Everyone Loves Mohamed ) by Malik Kuzman. An impressionistic collage of homo-erotic encounters, its fleeting structure recalls that of Barthes’ Incidents, a series of social vignettes culled from the author’s time in Morocco. I explore the simultaneity of Barthes’ Death of the Author argument and the emergence of these authorship scandals in post-colonial Franco-Arab fiction, and suggest that it is not accidental. In a similar vein, I analyze how the heritage of literary collaborations between Europeans and North Africans, often eroticized, has informed authorship scandals in post-immigration France.
Translating Desire: The Multilingual and Inter-Artistic Practice of Abdellah Taïa
Abstract:Purportedly the first openly gay writer published in Morocco, Abdellah Taia has become a name to reckon within the French literary landscape he has made his adopted home. His largely autobiographical work follows in a tradition of the Francophone Moroccan récit exemplified by his clearest precursor, Rachid O., while also demonstrating a frankness and a concern with contemporary issues such as migration and the Maghrebi transition to individualism that is clearly his own. His star has further risen with English translations of his work and his film L'Armée du salut, adapted from his novel of the same name. This article examines his claims to being the first to come out in a literature that, as Jarrod Hayes and other scholars have emphasized, was already steeped in homoeroticism. It focuses upon the issue of language difference, noting the ways in which French and Arabic circumscribe queer identity formation with pronounced socioeconomic repercussions and also by taking into consideration Taïa's desire to move between literary and cinematic languages. Linguistic identity, it argues, takes on its greatest importance at the moment of any identity formation, particularly insofar as language itself so often operates as a metaphor for other identity vectors, such as race, gender and sexuality.
Design of Fixture for Pitch Circle Diameter Run-out Check
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