The Homoerotics of Orientalism /

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 abunda...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boone, Joseph Allen
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Homosexuality in literature. Eroticism in literature. Orientalism in literature. Homosexuality in art. Orientalism in art. European literature > History and criticism. Middle Eastern literature > History and criticism. Orientalism > Europe. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality; Part I: Theory and History; 1. Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounter, Orientalism, and the Politics of Sexuality; 2. Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, and Hamams: A Textual and Visual History of Tropes; Part II: Geographies of Desire; 3. Empire of 'Excesse, ' City of Dreams: Homoerotic Imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman World; 4. Epic Ambitions and Epicurean Appetites: Egyptian Stories I; Color Plates; 5. Colonialism and Its Aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian Stories II; Part III: Modes and Genres;
6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres: Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes; 7. Looking Backward: Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting and Orientalist Art; 8. Looking Again: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Visual Cultures; Notes; Index.