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In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected with space. Through a transcultural and intersectional approach to bodily representations, socioeconomic conditions, and postcolonial politics, Navarro-Ayala analyzes queerness and Frenchness in narratives from North Africa and Latin America, revealing that Frenchness is coded to represent a sexually deviant “Other.” France and Frenchness, in two distinct regions of the global South, have come to represent an imagined queer space enabling sexual exploration, even in social conditions that would have otherwise prevented queer agency. .

Human body-Social aspects. --- Queer theory. --- Latin American literature. --- African literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Sociology of the Body. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Queer Theory. --- Latin American/Caribbean Literature. --- African Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Gender identity --- Latin American fiction --- North African fiction (French) --- Gender identity in literature. --- Male homosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Latin America --- Africa, North --- Civilization --- French influences. --- Homosexuality, Male, in literature --- French fiction --- North African literature (French) --- North African authors --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- France --- Human body—Social aspects. --- Culture. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Homosexuality in literature. --- National characteristics, French, in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Latin American literature --- North African literature --- Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature. --- Homosexualité dans la littérature. --- Théorie queer. --- Français dans la littérature. --- Altérité dans la littérature. --- Littérature latino-américaine --- Littérature maghrébine --- Literature. --- North African literature. --- Histoire et critique. --- 1900-1999 --- French-speaking countries --- Francophonie --- French-speaking countries. --- In literature. --- Dans la littérature.