{"product_id":"transforming-family-jocelyn-frelier-9781496225092","title":"Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature","description":"One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of \"trans-\" families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTransforming Family\u003c\/i\u003e Jocelyn Frelier examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors in France, Morocco, and Algeria, including Azouz Begag, Nina Bouraoui, Fouad Laroui, Le?a Sebbar, Le?a Slimani, and Abdellah Ta?. Each novel contributes a unique argument about this alternate understanding of family, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality. Arguing that trans- families are \u003ci\u003ealways already\u003c\/i\u003e queer, Frelier opens up new spaces of agency for both family units and individuals who seek representation and fulfilling futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The novels analyzed in \u003ci\u003eTransforming Family\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the families they depict, resist classification and delink the legacies of colonialism from contemporary modes of being. As a result, these novels create trans- identities for their protagonists and contribute to a scholarly understanding of the becoming trans- of cultural production. As international political debates related to migration, the family unit, and the \"global migrant crisis\" surge, Frelier destabilizes governmental criteria for the \"regrouping\" of families by turning to a set of definitions found in the cultural production of members of the francophone, North African diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jocelyn Frelier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496225090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496225092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Jocelyn Frelier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071514013951,"sku":"9781496225092","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa8403f6-808c-4aa2-bf3e-ed189ca65ab6.jpg?v=1685436548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-family-jocelyn-frelier-9781496225092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}