Homoerotics of Orientalism

Autor*innen

• Joseph Allen Boone

Parameter

• 520 Seiten
• 19 Lesestunden

• Geschichte
• LGBTQ+ Literatur
• Sachliteratur
• Sexualität & Intimität
• Wissenschaftliche Theorien

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback