Jocelyn Frelier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Frelier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Frelier |
| SIGNATURE | FRELIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disintegrating empire
Transforming Family
Maternal Becoming In The Vietnamese Transdiaspora
Kim Thúy and Thi Bui fled Vietnam with their families in 1975 and 1978, respectively, in the midst of the Vietnam War, a conflict that pushed hundreds of thousands of people from the country. These women authors are part of the 1.5 generation-they were born in Vietnam, left before adulthood, and are the children of refugees. In my comparative analysis of the authors' first publications, I show how the two texts reveal their authors' specific inte…
Dear dad
In this article, I examine fatherhood in Laila Lalami’s first two novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Secret Son. I trace a set of questions and literary interventions related to what I refer to as the Moroccan American Dream along two axes: first, the political implications of choosing English as one’s primary method of self-expression in a transnational Moroccan context and second, the substitution of the so-called European Eldorado (…
Chosen Brotherhood in Abdellah Taïa’s Celui qui est digne d’être aimé
This article analyzes the final letter in Abdellah Taïa’s epistolary novel, Celui qui est digne d’être aimé (2017). First, I examine the relationship of chosen brotherhood between two queer characters, Ahmed and Lahbib, as well as Lahbib’s explicit definition of the brotherly bond between them. Subsequently, I turn to Lahbib’s account of his transnational sexual exploitation, in which he nuances his initial definition of chosen brotherhood to inc…
Laila LalamiThe Other Americans
go-round. The oddball professors roam the university halls, mutter their implausible interpretations of the historical record, and bitterly condemn other colleagues’ work. The feuds, as the old joke goes, are so bitter because there is nothing significant at risk. Solovyov’s mentor offers advice on academic gamesmanship. A panel session drones on with self-important pronouncements, long after it should close, with the audience impatiently longing…
Cultivating Empathy and Humility
Laila Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. After earning a BA in English from Mohammed V University in Rabat, she moved to the UK to complete an MA in linguistics and then the United States for her PhD at the University of Southern California. She has published four novels and received widespread critical acclaim. The Moor's Account was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a finali…
Surrogacy
This article examines Fouad Laroui's novel (Laroui, Fouad. 2010. Une année chez les Français. Paris: Julliard), Une année chez les Français, and charts the protagonist's development to argue that it offers a new model for Moroccan coming-of-age in a postcolonial context. While Une année is a Bildungsroman, it breaks away from patterns seen in the genre before it to illustrate the possibilities of creating 'Third Spaces' (Bhabha, Homi K. 1990. "Th…
Surrogacy
This article examines Fouad Laroui's novel (Laroui, Fouad. 2010. Une année chez les Français. Paris: Julliard), Une année chez les Français, and charts the protagonist's development to argue that it offers a new model for Moroccan coming-of-age in a postcolonial context. While Une année is a Bildungsroman, it breaks away from patterns seen in the genre before it to illustrate the possibilities of creating 'Third Spaces' (Bhabha, Homi K. 1990. "Th…
Chosen Brotherhood in Abdellah Taïa’s Celui qui est digne d’être aimé
This article analyzes the final letter in Abdellah Taïa’s epistolary novel, Celui qui est digne d’être aimé (2017). First, I examine the relationship of chosen brotherhood between two queer characters, Ahmed and Lahbib, as well as Lahbib’s explicit definition of the brotherly bond between them. Subsequently, I turn to Lahbib’s account of his transnational sexual exploitation, in which he nuances his initial definition of chosen brotherhood to inc…
Laila LalamiThe Other Americans
go-round. The oddball professors roam the university halls, mutter their implausible interpretations of the historical record, and bitterly condemn other colleagues’ work. The feuds, as the old joke goes, are so bitter because there is nothing significant at risk. Solovyov’s mentor offers advice on academic gamesmanship. A panel session drones on with self-important pronouncements, long after it should close, with the audience impatiently longing…
Cultivating Empathy and Humility
Laila Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. After earning a BA in English from Mohammed V University in Rabat, she moved to the UK to complete an MA in linguistics and then the United States for her PhD at the University of Southern California. She has published four novels and received widespread critical acclaim. The Moor's Account was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a finali…
Surrogacy
This article examines Fouad Laroui's novel (Laroui, Fouad. 2010. Une année chez les Français. Paris: Julliard), Une année chez les Français, and charts the protagonist's development to argue that it offers a new model for Moroccan coming-of-age in a postcolonial context. While Une année is a Bildungsroman, it breaks away from patterns seen in the genre before it to illustrate the possibilities of creating 'Third Spaces' (Bhabha, Homi K. 1990. "Th…
Dear dad
In this article, I examine fatherhood in Laila Lalami’s first two novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Secret Son. I trace a set of questions and literary interventions related to what I refer to as the Moroccan American Dream along two axes: first, the political implications of choosing English as one’s primary method of self-expression in a transnational Moroccan context and second, the substitution of the so-called European Eldorado (…
Transforming Family
Maternal Becoming In The Vietnamese Transdiaspora
Kim Thúy and Thi Bui fled Vietnam with their families in 1975 and 1978, respectively, in the midst of the Vietnam War, a conflict that pushed hundreds of thousands of people from the country. These women authors are part of the 1.5 generation-they were born in Vietnam, left before adulthood, and are the children of refugees. In my comparative analysis of the authors' first publications, I show how the two texts reveal their authors' specific inte…
Disintegrating empire
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