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Author Mack, Mehammed Amadeus, author.

Title Sexagon : Muslims, France and the sexualization of national culture / Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Series Modern language initiative
Modern language initiative
Contents Introduction : enter the sexagon -- 1. The banlieue has a gender : competing visions of sexual diversity -- 2. Constructing the broken family : the draw for psychoanalysis -- 3. Uncultured yet seductive : the 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
Summary 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
Analysis Arab
France
Muslim
banlieue
diversity
homonormativity
immigration
queer
sexual nationalism
underground
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed March 23, 2023)
Subject Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- France
Sex -- Social aspects -- France -- History
North Africans -- France
Muslims -- France.
Assimilation (Sociology) -- France
National characteristics, French.
French.
Sex -- France
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Arabs
Assimilation (Sociology)
Muslims
Sex
Literary studies: general.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Politics & government.
Comparative Literature.
Society.
France
Form Electronic book
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