The Homoerotics of Orientalism

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Columbia University Press, 2014年3月18日 - 544 頁
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.
 

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Geographies of Desire
109
Color Plates
190
Modes and Genres
253
Notes
423
Index
475
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Joseph Allen Boone is a professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at the University of Southern California and the author of Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism.

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