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The homoerotics of Orientalism / Joseph Allen Boone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boone, Joseph Allen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Eroticism in literature.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Homosexuality in art.
- Orientalism in art.
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Middle Eastern literature--History and criticism.
- Middle Eastern literature.
- Orientalism--Europe.
- Orientalism.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 486 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231151108
- 0231151101
- OCLC:
- 842879159
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