Title The Homoerotics of Orientalism

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (537 pages) : color illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record, electronic version viewed Octboer 23, 2017 SUBJECT Europa gnd Subject Eroticism in literature. European literature -- History and criticism Homosexuality in art. Homosexuality in literature. Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism Orientalism in art. Orientalism in literature. Orientalism -- Europe Sexual Behavior -- history BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. ART -- History -- General. Eroticism in literature European literature Homosexuality in art Homosexuality in literature Middle Eastern literature Orientalism Orientalism in art Orientalism in literature Künste Erotik Motiv Homosexualität Motiv Literatur Orientalismus Kunst Orientbild Homosexuality and literature. Eroticism in literature. Orientalism. Homosexuality in art. European literature -- History and criticism. Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2013030656 ISBN 0231521820 9780231521826

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