Titlebook: Queering Transcultural Encounters; Bodies, Image, and F Luis Navarro-Ayala Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 Q

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Introduction: Theorizing Transcultural Queer Bodies and Their Appropriation of Frenchness,onstruction of a queer identity in both Latin America and North Africa. Rather than approaching these cultures as a residual depository of European thought, colonization, and linguistic dominance—as has often been demonstrated to prove problematic in queer theory and literary criticism—Navarro-Ayala

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Frenchness: Boundary Figures and Figuring Boundaries in Alfonso Hernández-Catá’s Alfonso Hernández-Catá’s . (1928). It draws attention to Yuri Lotman’s notion of semiospheric boundary and its paradoxical double-functionality to establish the main character as a boundary figure, since the main character is both inside and outside of national culture. Navarro-Ayala argues that th

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A Tango Performance: Inverts and Flowers in the , in Buenos Airesusly. Navarro-Ayala argues that Frenchness is essential to understand the role of the . in Argentinean society in the early twentieth century, as this site becomes the space where homosexual behavior is openly allowed. Navarro-Ayala also builds on Lotman’s paradoxical double-functionality to show no

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Moroccan Boys: Points of Resistance in Homosexual Tourismir own young brown bodies and the controversial relationships created with older Frenchmen in Rachid O.’s narratives . (1998) and . (2003). Navarro-Ayala’s study reveals a progression of sexual tourism from . to . in Morocco: The young boy learns he can earn cash for the use of his body and, thus, d

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Rachid O.’s Homosexual Awakening: The Allegorical Representation of the Blond-Haired, Blue-Eyed Fren and television produce Rachid’s affective experience. He traces a progression based on the senses of sight, touch, and taste. Whereas Rachid’s intimate moments initially remain confined to the domestic sphere, seeing Noé’s photograph for the first time awakens his desire to touch the image; subsequ

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Interracial Attraction: Male Bodies on Television and in the Soccer Fieldectivity formation as an effect of transculturalism. French television becomes a source of homoerotic fantasy, which awakens desire in the local Moroccan youngster to search for a partner with ethnic and racial differences. Navarro-Ayala focuses on the internalization that turns a collective scene i

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