{"product_id":"hybrid-anxieties-9781496224262","title":"Hybrid Anxieties","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSituated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, \u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Adopting a queer postcolonial perspective, \u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e adds a new impulse to the question of how to rethin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this fascinating study Quinan analyzes fictions that plumb anxieties about hybridity—racial, sexual, gendered, and national—in the wake of the French-Algerian war. \u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e offers a brilliant and much-needed synthesis of queer theory, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction in a French and Algerian context.”—Kadji Amin, author of \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e maps out and unpacks an important and timely topic, timely in terms of popular and political discussion but also in terms of scholarly debates about the queer, the postcolonial, and their intersections and about the histories of post-decolonization France. Quinan writes clearly and with style and makes claims incisively and convincingly.”—Todd Shepard, author of \u003ci\u003eSex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novelty of \u003ci\u003eHybrid Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its choice of sources, none of which are completely Maghrebian; rather, they might be situated at the place of the colonial encounter itself, in a sort of in-between à la Homi K. Bhabha. Given that Bhabha’s ‘in-between’ is inextricably linked to his conceptualization of ‘hybridity,’ I think that Quinan’s inclusion of this latter concept as one of the book’s key theoretical notions offers a unique opportunity to tease out possible connection between hybridity and queerness.”—Jarrod Hayes, author of \u003ci\u003eQueer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Framing Queer Postcolonial Interventions after the War    \u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Masculinity and Memory\u003cbr\u003e 1. Haunted Masculinity and the Wounds of War: Alain Resnais’s Muriel and Laurent Mauvignier’s The Wound    \u003cbr\u003e 2. “You’ll Never Give Me a Bad Conscience!”: Masculinity and Postcolonial Guilt in Caché    \u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Queering Postcolonial Legacies\u003cbr\u003e 3. Eros and Eden: Pierre Guyotat and Queer Pleasures    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Queer Palimpsests and October 17, 1961: Memory Politics in Leïla Sebbar’s The Seine Was Red    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Queering Identity, Embracing In-Betweenness: Disidentification and Re-membering in Nina Bouraoui’s Tomboy    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Queer Postcolonial Entanglements    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234174295,"sku":"9781496224262","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496224262.jpg?v=1730506071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hybrid-anxieties-9781496224262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}