Introduction: Reconsidering Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migration

Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer

Part One: On Place and Non-Place

1"Sortir de tous les territoires": To Be a Racialized and Colonized Subject within France Today. Is There for Abdellah Taïa a There Where to Go and to Exist?

Ralph Heyndels

2Sexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut: The Birth of a Queer Moroccan Francophone Identity
Olivier Le Blond

3Marginal Masculinities: Disidentifying Sexual Performativity Across Abdellah Taïa's Novels

Daniel Maroun

Part Two: Affective Migration

4He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Cruel Optimism in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut

Siham Bouamer

5Queerness, Shame, and the Family in Abdellah Taïa's Epistolary Writing

Ryan K. Schroth

6Mourning and Reconciliation: Anger, Politics, and Love

Jean-Pierre Boulé

Part Three: Postcolonial Temporalities

7Abdellah Taïa's Melancholic Migration: Oscillation between Solitude and Multitude

Thomas Muzart

8From the "Garçon du bled" to Tintin's Dog: The Interplay between Race and Sex in Abdellah Taïa's Un pays pour mourir and Celui qui est digne d'être aimé

Philippe Panizzon

9Adbellah Taïa's Transflilial Myth Making and Unfaithful Realms of Memory

Denis M. Provencher

Part Four: New Directions and Conclusions

10The Voices of Reappropriation

Antoine Idier

11Des hommes fatigués

Abdellah Taïa

12 Tired Men

Abdellah Taïa translated by Denis M. Provencher

Conclusion: New Directions for Abdellah Taïa and the Field

Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer