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Navarro-Ayala examines France as a nation and an imagined cultural space. His introduction theorizes that Frenchness plays a significant role in the construction 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’s research takes a transcultural approach to homo/sexual identities and subjectivities. He compares these two marginal regions from the global South in order to further the discussion about bodily image, sexuality, masculinity, marginality, ethnicity, and class within the discipline of queer studies, paying particular attention to the ways in which these sociological factors are associated with France in different cultural contexts.
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Navarro-Ayala, L. (2019). Introduction: Theorizing Transcultural Queer Bodies and Their Appropriation of Frenchness. In: Queering Transcultural Encounters. Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92315-4_1
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