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Queer flight: rethinking Maghrebi sexualities 同性恋飞行：重新思考马格里布人的性行为

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.5

Todd W. Reeser

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Bringing out Abdellah Taïa: sexuality, social mobility, and the discursive contexts of reading 带出阿卜杜拉-塔伊亚：性、社会流动性和阅读的话语语境

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.9

Bishupal Limbu

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L’émancipation décoloniale en toutes lettres d’Abdellah Taïa Abdellah Taïa 的非殖民化解放文字

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.10

Thomas Muzart

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Filming sex, language, and alienation in Morocco: the lens of Nabil Ayouch 在摩洛哥拍摄性、语言和异化：Nabil Ayouch 的镜头

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.11

Salim Ayoub

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Between diaspora and region: Tony Gatlif and Mehdi Ben Attia 散居地与地区之间：Tony Gatlif 和 Mehdi Ben Attia

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.8

Peter Tarjanyi

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An aesthetics of intranquillité : fear and anxiety in Le fil and L’intranquille 不安的美学：《Le fil》和《L'intranquille》中的恐惧与焦虑

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.7

Ryan K. Schroth

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Transing the Maghreb: permeable performances of queerness in Abdellah Taïa, Nina Bouraoui, and beyond 跨越马格里布：Abdellah Taïa、Nina Bouraoui 等人的同性恋渗透表演

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.6

D. N. Maroun

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Questions of identity and global visibility: French funding in Latin American and Maghrebi cinema 身份和全球知名度问题：法国对拉丁美洲和马格里布电影的资助

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.3

Kirsten Smith

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“#AsiatiquesDeFrance”: confronting anti-Asian racism in contemporary France through digital media "#AsiatiquesDeFrance"：通过数字媒体对抗当代法国的反亚洲种族主义

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.1

Elizabeth M. Collins

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Sachs, Miranda, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris Sachs, Miranda, An Age to Work：第三共和国巴黎工人阶级的童年

Contemporary French Civilization Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2024.4

Sarah Fishman

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