Queer Nations

Acknowledgements
A Note on Translations
Introduction
Part One: ALLEGORIES OF READING THE MAGHREB
1. Reading and Tourism: Sexual Approaches to the Maghreb
2. Moha the Theory Machine
Part Two SEX AND REVOLUTION
3. Homosexuality (Un)veiled
4. Skeletons in the Closet: Tahar Djaout’s Betrayal of National Secrets
5. In the Nation’s Closet: Sexual Marginality and the Itinerary of National Identity
6. Sex on Fire: Mohammed Dib and the Algerian Revolution
7. The Haunted House of the Nation: Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma
Part Three THE FEMINIST MENACE
8. Becoming a Woman: Ben Jelloun’s Allegory of Gender
9. Personalizing the Political, Politicizing the Personal: Assia Djebar’s Feminist Rewriting of History
10. Women Come Out into the Nation: Djebar’s Allegory of Marriage
11. Escaping the Identity Police
Part Four ALLEGORIES OF THE QUEER NATION
12. The Joy of Castration: Childhood Narratives and the Demise of Masculinity
13. Allegories of the Queer Nation
Works Cited
Index