%0 Journal Article %T Transing the Algerian Nation-State: Textual Transgender and Intersex from Pre-Independence to the Black Decade %+ Textes, Théories, Numérique (TTN) %A Zabus, Chantal %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0567-784X %J Acta Neophilologica %I Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts %V 52 %N 1-2 %P 69-96 %8 2019 %D 2019 %R 10.4312/an.52.1-2.69-96 %K Transgender %K Intersex %K Trans(ion)ing %K Algeria %K Nation-State %K queer Maghreb %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studiesJournal articles %X The article examines the role of transgender and intersex in two key-texts, Marie-Pierre Pruvot's Marie parce que c' est joli (2007) and Fériel Assima's Rouhlem ou le sexe des anges (1996). Both texts chronicle two «moments» in Algerian history: 1) the two decades leading to Algerian independence in 1962; and 2) the Black decade spanning 1988-1998. These «moments» are experienced by two protagonists-pied-noir Jean-Pierre Pruvot and MTF Marie-Pierre Pruvot, rolled into one; and Assima's intersex character raised as a boy, Rhoulem. Both their repressed feminine genders and bodies-in-transition, reflected through the discursive erosion of male genitalia, augur the "transing" of the Algerian nation state , away from a traditional engendering of the nation-state as male. %G English %2 https://sorbonne-paris-nord.hal.science/hal-02428033/document %2 https://sorbonne-paris-nord.hal.science/hal-02428033/file/Transing%20the%20Algerian%20State%208933-Article%20%20Text-23063-1-10-20191217.pdf %L hal-02428033 %U https://sorbonne-paris-nord.hal.science/hal-02428033 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS13 %~ USPC %~ SORBONNE-PARIS-NORD