The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.

  • Boone, Joseph Allen
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

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Description

The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just.

Publication/Creation

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Physical description

xxxiv, 486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of colored plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

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Contents

Preface: re-orienting sexuality -- Theory and history. Histories of cross-cultural encounter, Orientalism, and the politics of sexuality -- Beautiful boys, sodomy, and hamams: a textual and visual history of tropes -- Geographies of desire. Empire of "excesse", city of dreams: homoerotic imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman world -- Epic ambitions and epicurean appetites: Egyptian stories I -- Colonialism and its aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian stories II -- Modes and genres. Queer modernism and Middle Eastern poetic genres: appropriations, forgeries, and hoaxes -- Looking backward: homoeroticism in miniature and Orientalist art -- Looking again: twentieth- and twentieth-first-century visual cultures -- Postscript.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-473) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPO.28
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0231151101
  • 0231521820
  • 9780231151108
  • 9780231521826