{"product_id":"transforming-family-9781496225092","title":"Transforming Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors who imagine familial aspiration that is decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to the significant contributions this timely work makes to scholarship on the individual authors analyzed therein, this work will also serve as an invaluable resource to anyone interested in literary representations of family alongside feminist, queer, and intersectional theoretical questions pertaining to social class, race, and gender. It will also be applicable to other writers from other cultures who narrate their own experiences of migration.\"—Adrienne Angelo, \u003ci\u003eWomen in French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Frelier steeps us in transnational, transcultural, and transdiasporic family formations with rigor and vulnerability—qualities that together provide a deep immersion in texts and lives. The book takes up ‘family’ not as a vehicle to somewhere else, but as a subject worthy of our attention for its own sake. Reaching across disciplinary chasms, it holds something for every reader seeking to understand families as they are.”—Amy Brainer, author of \u003ci\u003eQueer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important contribution to French and francophone studies. . . . Given the evolution of family structure and its ever-growing transnational nature, this book is a welcome intervention in our field and beyond. Jocelyn Frelier sheds new light on important works and authors.”—Loïc Bourdeau, editor of \u003ci\u003eHorrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments: On Gratitude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Technical Note: On Quotes and Translations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude: On the Origins of this Project, or Literary Criticism as Feminist Autoethnographic Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Trans- Forming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude 1: On Maternity, Motherhood, and Mothering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Mothering beyond Borders: Transnational Queer Mother and Child in Nina Bouraoui’s \u003ci\u003eGarçon manqué\u003c\/i\u003e (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Queering Motherhood: Bad Mothers and Murderous Nannies in Leïla Slimani’s \u003ci\u003eChanson douce\u003c\/i\u003e (2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude 2: On Paternity, Fatherhood, and Fathering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Estranged from the Father: Estrangement Bonds and the Terrorist Son in Leïla Sebbar’s\u003ci\u003e Mon cher fils \u003c\/i\u003e(2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Beginning Again: Transcultural Contact and Fatherhood in Azouz Begag’s \u003ci\u003eSalam Ouessant\u003c\/i\u003e (2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude 3: On Horizontal Familial Bonds and Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Adoption: Choosing Family and Coming of Age in Fouad Laroui’s \u003ci\u003eUne année chez les Français\u003c\/i\u003e (2010)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Brotherhood: Emancipatory Fraternal Bonds in Abdellah Taïa’s \u003ci\u003eCelui qui est digne d’être aimé\u003c\/i\u003e (2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostlude: On Hindsight and Finales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409235583319,"sku":"9781496225092","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225092.jpg?v=1730506079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transforming-family-9781496225092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}