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Sexagon – Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

Autor Mehammed Amadeu Mack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2017
Sexagon studies the broad politicization of sexuality in French debates about immigration and diversity since the 1980s, and how that politicization is reflected in and also created by French cultural productions. Surveying representations of communities of immigrant origin, as well as discourses circulating within them, I focus on literature, film, psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry, erotica and feminist and gay and lesbian activist rhetoric to examine where sexualized representations take a political turn. I furthermore examine how guardians of French Culture have judged the integration of Muslim immigrants from North and West Africa--as well as their French descendants--according to these Muslims' attitudes about gender and sexuality. More precisely, I study the symptomatic "frustration" that French establishment figures consistently exhibit in the face of changes to a familiar France, and argue that this frustration gravitates around the concept of virilism. A volatile virilism would not only animate the "difficult" Arab, black and Muslim boys so often the focus of sensational newscasts, it would also define their neighborhoods in the banlieues, their religion of Islam, and the notion of immigration itself. The frustrations I study are crucially inflamed by a defining element of these virility cultures, namely their clandestinity. Mirroring the secret and underground qualities of "illegal" immigration, the proponents of clandestine cultures both gay and straight choose to withdraw away from official scrutiny within ethnic communitarian shelters that are anathema to the Republic's desires for universalism and transparency. These sealed-off spaces of virile domain are all the more "annoying" to the surveillance apparatus for their impenetrability.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823274611
ISBN-10: 0823274616
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press

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Cuprins

Introduction: Enter the Sexagon
Manipulations of Gay-Friendliness
Vocabularies of Race and Desire
The Sexualization of Ethnicity, Now and Then
Not Queer Enough
Sexual Nationalism and the Rape of Europa
The Banlieue as Laboratory
An Eventful Home Life
Exposing the Arab
The Sexagon

Chapter One: The Banlieue has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity
Banlieue Girl Gangs and Muslima soldiers
Ethnographic Obfuscation in the Homo-ghetto
Capitalizing on Banlieusard Homosexualities
The Banlieue as Maker, Not Cracked Mirror, of the Queer

Chapter Two: Constructing the Broken Family: The Draw for Psychoanalysis
The Juvenile Delinquent
Mother Enablers of a Male Islam
"Be Careful What You Wish For"
Historical Echoes of the Colonial Delinquent
The Veiled Woman
The Veil, the Clandestine, and the Public/Private Distinction
The Impotent Father
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Community Attachment

Chapter Three: Uncultured yet Seductive: The Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy
Sexuality, Ethnography, and Literature
Sexual Informants of Bad News
The Guardians of French Letters
Looking Hard
The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Virility
Atonement for Cross-Cultural Injury
The Arab Boy's Post-colonial Revenge

Chapter Four: Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance
Exposing the Clandestine, Intimately
Homosexualization and Acceptance
Rehabilitating Virility
The Sexualization of Authority
Big Brother is Watching You
Interpenetration of Communities
Sex Work, Immigrant Work, Travail d'Arabe
Image Control

Chapter Five: Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography
Exploiting Exploitation
Stereotypes and Victimology
François Sagat, aka, "Azzedine"
The banlieue's Erotic Premises
From beur to beurette, a Political Loss
Domestic-Exotic Men

Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index