Transforming Family Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature

Jocelyn Frelier, "Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature"
English | ISBN: 1496225090 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of "trans-" families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders.