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1 online resource (537 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 miniaturist painting and Orientalist art -- Looking again: twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual cultures. |
| Summary |
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 as often upending its assumed meanings. Traces of this undertow abound in European and Middle Eastern fiction, diaries, travel literature, erotica, ethnography, painting, photography, film, and digital media. Joseph Allen Boone explores these vast representations, linking European art to Middle Eastern sources largely unfamiliar to Western audiences and, in some cases, reproduced in this volume for the first time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Eroticism in literature.
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Eroticism in literature. |
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
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Homosexuality in art.
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Homosexuality in art. |
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature. |
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Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism.
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Middle Eastern literature. |
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Orientalism in art.
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Orientalism in art. |
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Orientalism in literature.
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Orientalism in literature. |
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Orientalism -- Europe.
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Orientalism. |
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Europe. |
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Sexual Behavior -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boone, Joseph Allen. Homoerotics of Orientalism. 9780231151108 0231151101 (DLC) 2013030656 |
| ISBN |
0231521820 (electronic book) |
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9780231521826 (electronic book) |
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9780231151108 |
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0231151101 |
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9780231151115 |
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023115111X |
| Standard No. |
40023494947 |
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