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Author:

Boone, Joseph Allen, author.

Title:

The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxxiv, 486 pages, 16 unumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

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.
Eroticism in literature.
European literature.
Homosexuality in art.
Homosexuality in literature.
Middle Eastern literature.
Orientalism.
Orientalism in art.
Orientalism in literature.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0231151101 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231151108 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842879159

LCCN:

2013030656

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)