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Dancing fear & desire : race, sexuality and imperial politics in Middle Eastern dance / Stavros Stavrou Karayanni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou, 1965-
- Series:
- Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
- Cultural studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belly dance--Middle East.
- Belly dance.
- Belly dance--Greece.
- Belly dance--Political aspects.
- Belly dance--Social aspects.
- Gender identity in dance.
- Homosexuality and dance.
- Male dancers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance-an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and natio
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introducing Colonial and Postcolonial Dialectics on the Subject of Dance; 2 Dismissal Veiling Desire: Kuchuk Hanem and Imperial Masculinity; 3 The Dance of Extravagant Pleasures: Male Performers of the Orient and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze; 4 Dancing Decadence: Semiotics of Dance and the Phantasm of Salomé; 5 ""I have seen this dance on old Greek vases"": Hellenism and the Worlding of Greek Dance; 6 What Dancer from Which Dance? Concluding Reflections; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610280735
- 9781554587193
- 1554587190
- 9781280280733
- 1280280735
- 9780889209268
- 088920926X
- 9781417563708
- 1417563702
- OCLC:
- 753480550
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