Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree - Couverture souple

Hayes, Jarrod

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472053167 ISBN 13 : 9780472053162

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2016

Synopsis

Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity—excluding anyone who doesn’t share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates, ultimately the desire for roots contains the “roots” of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty; welcome sexual diversity; acknowledge their own fictionality; reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways; and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize. The roots narratives explored in this book simultaneously assert and question rooted identities within a number of diasporas—African, Jewish, and Armenian. By looking at these together, one can discern between the local specificities of any single diaspora and the commonalities inherent in diaspora as a global phenomenon. This comparatist, interdisciplinary study will interest scholars in a diversity of fields, including diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, LGBTQ studies, French and Francophone studies, American studies, comparative literature, and literary theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jarrod Hayes is Professor of French Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472053167
• ISBN 13: 9780472053162
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
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• Personne responsable: non disponible