Sexagon : : Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture / / Mehammed Amadeus Mack.
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society's understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and...
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Mack, Mehammed Amadeus, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sexagon : Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture / Mehammed Amadeus Mack. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (344 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Enter the Sexagon -- 1. The Banlieue Has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity -- 2. Constructing the Broken Family: Th e Draw for Psychoanalysis -- 3. Uncultured Yet Seductive: Th e Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy -- 4. Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance -- 5. Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography -- Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society's understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and sexuality, Sexagon studies the broad politicization of Franco-Arab identity in the context of French culture and its assumptions about appropriate modes of sexual and gender expression, both gay and straight.Surveying representations of young Muslim men and women in literature, film, popular journalism, television, and erotica as well as in psychoanalysis, ethnography, and gay and lesbian activist rhetoric, Mehammed Amadeus Mack reveals the myriad ways in which communities of immigrant origin are continually and consistently scapegoated as already and always outside the boundary of French citizenship regardless of where the individuals within these communities were born. At the same time, through deft readings of-among other things-fashion photography and online hook-up sites, Mack shows how Franco-Arab youth culture is commodified and fetishized to the point of sexual fantasy.Official French culture, as Mack suggests, has judged the integration of Muslim immigrants from North and West Africa-as well as their French descendants-according to their presumed attitudes about gender and sexuality. More precisely, Mack argues, the frustrations consistently expressed by the French establishment in the face of the alleged Muslim refusal to assimilate is not only symptomatic of anxieties regarding changes to a "familiar" France but also indicative of an unacknowledged preoccupation with what Mack identifies as the "virility cultures" of Franco-Arabs, rendering Muslim youth as both sexualized objects and unruly subjects.The perceived volatility of this banlieue virility serves to animate French characterizations of the "difficult" black, Arab, and Muslim boy-and girl-across a variety of sensational newscasts and entertainment media, which are crucially inflamed by the clandestine nature of the banlieues themselves and non-European expressions of virility. Mirroring the secret and underground qualities of "illegal" immigration, Mack shows, Franco-Arab youth increasingly choose to withdraw from official scrutiny of the French Republic and to thwart its desires for universalism and transparency. For their impenetrability, these sealed-off domains of banlieue virility are deemed all the more threatening to the surveillance of mainstream French society and the state apparatus. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Arabs France. Assimilation (Sociology) France. Muslims France. Sex France. Gender & Sexuality. Islamic Studies. Race & Ethnic Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. bisacsh Arab. France. Muslim. banlieue. diversity. homonormativity. immigration. queer. sexual nationalism. underground. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110729016 print 9780823274604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823274635 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823274635 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823274635/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Enter the Sexagon -- 1. The Banlieue Has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity -- 2. Constructing the Broken Family: Th e Draw for Psychoanalysis -- 3. Uncultured Yet Seductive: Th e Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy -- 4. Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance -- 5. Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography -- Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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