Alberto Fernández Carbajal
Biographic Data
| ID | 143035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Fernández Carbajal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto Fernández |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbajal |
| SIGNATURE | CARBAJAL A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0757-992X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trans*versality, a hijra politics of knowledge, and Partition postmemory in Khushwant Singh’s Delhi
In contrast with Train to Pakistan (1956), Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Novel (1990) has not received critical attention in light of India and Pakistan’s Partition. The diegetic narrator, a middle-aged Sikh writer, and his long-term intersex lover, the hijra Bhagmati, constitute the text’s main focalizers in contemporary Delhi. Bhagmati is constructed as a metonym for Delhi, a bold trans*versal choice on Singh’s part given her marginal social posit…
Enby in the Time of Covid-19
This article explores the author's discovery and performance of their non-binary identity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when, somewhat paradoxically, the various national lockdowns allowed individuals the necessary introspection to confront important parts of themselves, such as their gender identity. Taking an autoethnographic approach, the essay investigates how the author's gender-fluid identity was performed and affirmed at a time of s…
Hipsters End
This article examines Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance, a rewriting of E. M. Forster's Howards End. It analyses Lopez's dealings with property, a concern that still chimes with the millennials of Lopez's play, in the play's invocation of property and the creation of community. It suggests that the play's most affecting moment involves the queering of time, while arguing the play enshrines normatively masculine bodies, instead of memorializing thos…
Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
This book explores representations of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present. It brings together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire from several Western locations. The book approaches queer Muslims as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities.…
Countermemories of desire
This article examines Shamim Sarif’s novel I Can’t Think Straight (2008), with occasional reference to the film of the same title, and in light of intersecting issues of ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in multicultural Britain. It argues that Sarif’s narratives, which depict the burgeoning romantic relationship between a British woman of Muslim heritage and a Christian Arab woman with ethnic links to Palestine, challenge the Western stereotype…
The wanderings of a gay Moroccan
Abdellah Taïa is the first Moroccan writer to assume his homosexuality publicly. Born in Rabat in 1973, he spent his childhood and early youth in the small coastal Moroccan town of Salé, which features in many of his works. He has lived in France since around the turn of the 21st century, where he has written two books of short fiction and six novels in French. His autofictional novels Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia were published by Amer…
At freedom's limit
At freedom’s limit: Islam and the postcolonial predicament." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(4), pp. 507–508
On being queer and postcolonial
This article explores the legacies of Virginia Woolf’s modernist lens in Zadie Smith’s latest novel, NW through a joint queer and postcolonial reading. Although critics have so far pointed out the connections between Smith’s fiction and modernist and postmodernist precursors, this article examines the unexplored relationship between NW and Mrs Dalloway. It argues that Woolf’s novel provides NW with a model of queer modernist dissidence that NW en…
Enby in the Time of Covid-19
This article explores the author's discovery and performance of their non-binary identity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when, somewhat paradoxically, the various national lockdowns allowed individuals the necessary introspection to confront important parts of themselves, such as their gender identity. Taking an autoethnographic approach, the essay investigates how the author's gender-fluid identity was performed and affirmed at a time of s…
Countermemories of desire
This article examines Shamim Sarif’s novel I Can’t Think Straight (2008), with occasional reference to the film of the same title, and in light of intersecting issues of ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in multicultural Britain. It argues that Sarif’s narratives, which depict the burgeoning romantic relationship between a British woman of Muslim heritage and a Christian Arab woman with ethnic links to Palestine, challenge the Western stereotype…
The wanderings of a gay Moroccan
Abdellah Taïa is the first Moroccan writer to assume his homosexuality publicly. Born in Rabat in 1973, he spent his childhood and early youth in the small coastal Moroccan town of Salé, which features in many of his works. He has lived in France since around the turn of the 21st century, where he has written two books of short fiction and six novels in French. His autofictional novels Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia were published by Amer…
At freedom's limit
At freedom’s limit: Islam and the postcolonial predicament." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(4), pp. 507–508
On being queer and postcolonial
This article explores the legacies of Virginia Woolf’s modernist lens in Zadie Smith’s latest novel, NW through a joint queer and postcolonial reading. Although critics have so far pointed out the connections between Smith’s fiction and modernist and postmodernist precursors, this article examines the unexplored relationship between NW and Mrs Dalloway. It argues that Woolf’s novel provides NW with a model of queer modernist dissidence that NW en…
On being queer and postcolonial
This article explores the legacies of Virginia Woolf’s modernist lens in Zadie Smith’s latest novel, NW through a joint queer and postcolonial reading. Although critics have so far pointed out the connections between Smith’s fiction and modernist and postmodernist precursors, this article examines the unexplored relationship between NW and Mrs Dalloway. It argues that Woolf’s novel provides NW with a model of queer modernist dissidence that NW en…
Countermemories of desire
This article examines Shamim Sarif’s novel I Can’t Think Straight (2008), with occasional reference to the film of the same title, and in light of intersecting issues of ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in multicultural Britain. It argues that Sarif’s narratives, which depict the burgeoning romantic relationship between a British woman of Muslim heritage and a Christian Arab woman with ethnic links to Palestine, challenge the Western stereotype…
The wanderings of a gay Moroccan
Abdellah Taïa is the first Moroccan writer to assume his homosexuality publicly. Born in Rabat in 1973, he spent his childhood and early youth in the small coastal Moroccan town of Salé, which features in many of his works. He has lived in France since around the turn of the 21st century, where he has written two books of short fiction and six novels in French. His autofictional novels Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia were published by Amer…
At freedom's limit
At freedom’s limit: Islam and the postcolonial predicament." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(4), pp. 507–508
Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
This book explores representations of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present. It brings together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire from several Western locations. The book approaches queer Muslims as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities.…
Trans*versality, a hijra politics of knowledge, and Partition postmemory in Khushwant Singh’s Delhi
In contrast with Train to Pakistan (1956), Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Novel (1990) has not received critical attention in light of India and Pakistan’s Partition. The diegetic narrator, a middle-aged Sikh writer, and his long-term intersex lover, the hijra Bhagmati, constitute the text’s main focalizers in contemporary Delhi. Bhagmati is constructed as a metonym for Delhi, a bold trans*versal choice on Singh’s part given her marginal social posit…
Enby in the Time of Covid-19
This article explores the author's discovery and performance of their non-binary identity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when, somewhat paradoxically, the various national lockdowns allowed individuals the necessary introspection to confront important parts of themselves, such as their gender identity. Taking an autoethnographic approach, the essay investigates how the author's gender-fluid identity was performed and affirmed at a time of s…
Hipsters End
This article examines Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance, a rewriting of E. M. Forster's Howards End. It analyses Lopez's dealings with property, a concern that still chimes with the millennials of Lopez's play, in the play's invocation of property and the creation of community. It suggests that the play's most affecting moment involves the queering of time, while arguing the play enshrines normatively masculine bodies, instead of memorializing thos…
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