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Untranslatable Desire: Inter-Ethnic Relationships In Franco-Arab Literature, Mehammed Mack
Untranslatable Desire: Inter-Ethnic Relationships In Franco-Arab Literature, Mehammed Mack
French Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay examines the sexualization of post-colonial relations at the level of literature, paying special attention to how post-colonial resentment is portrayed via the figure of the “Arab boy,” transplanted from an exploited status in colonial settings to an un-assimilated status in contemporary France. The difficulties of communication that occur, when certain French writers aim to depict this Arab figure, are then sourced to problems of cultural translation in a variety of instances. Gay-identified Moroccan authors like Rachid O. and Abdellah Taïa, who write in French from France, have responded to calls for sexual disclosure as "native informants," while simultaneously …