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In Operation Freak, Christian Flaugh embarks upon an exploration of the intricate connection between the physical bodies and narratives that, subjected to all manner of operations, generate identity. The author spotlights such voluntary and involuntary acts to show how discourses of ability, disability, and bodily manipulation regularly influence the production in and of various Francophone texts. Flaugh's foundation is the critical examination of mutually-informing narratives: Francophone novels that hyperbolically signal normative discourses through quintessential "freaks" (monstres) such as the Siamese twin, the bearded lady, and the exotic witch; and the related sociocultural master narratives from North America, North Africa, and the Caribbean. Employing disability and freak culture theories alongside studies of identification and narrative, Flaugh's close readings move beyond polarized discussions of "disabled" and "non-disabled" bodies. They expand such discussions to articulate how ability - like identity and narrative - is impermanent. It passes and it is passed throughout a spectrum at the same time that it intersects regularly with various narratives of identity like citizenship, gender, and race. Each chapter reveals how "operation" is a profit-driven identification process informed by abilities and constantly reproduced by surgeons, slave masters, writers, and the "freak" protagonists themselves. An unflinching look at such manipulation, Operation Freak illustrates the undeniably visceral relation between bodily ability, identity, narrative, and normality carved onto the body of the freak of culture (monstre de la culture).
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This book is a study of male-female relations in two acclaimed novels by contemporary Maghrebi Francophone author and French intellectual, Tahar Ben Jelloun. The problematic of male-female relations in the Maghreb, especially as represented by Tahar Ben Jelloun--with its extensive and overarching implications and possibilities within and beyond the realm of literary enquiry--has not received due scholarly and critical attention up until now. This study responds to the need for a holistic understanding of these male-female relations. This volume makes a solid and timely contribution to the fiel
Man-woman relationships in literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- Ben Jelloun, Tahar, --- History and criticism. --- Morocco --- Africa, North --- In literature. --- Ṭāhir Bin-Jallūn, --- Bin-Jallūn, al-Ṭāhir, --- Tahar Ben Jelloun, --- Ibn Jallūn, al-Ṭāhir, --- Ṭāhir ibn Jallūn, --- Jelloun, Tahar Ben, --- Benjelloun, Tahar, --- בן־ג׳לון, טאהאר, --- إبن جلون، طاهر، --- ابن جلّون، الطاهر، --- بن جلون، الطاهر --- بن جلون، طاهر، --- Empire chérifien --- Kingdom of Morocco --- Kingdom of Morrocco --- Maghrib --- Mamlaka al-Maghrebia --- Mamlakah al-Maghribīyah --- Maroc --- Marocko --- Marokko --- Maroko --- Marrakesh (Kingdom) --- Marrocos --- Marruecos --- Marruecos Francés --- Morokko --- Morokko Ōkoku --- Morrocco --- Royaume du Maroc --- Марокко --- モロッコ --- モロッコ王国 --- Morocco (Spanish zone)
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