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What makes a man? : sex talk in Beirut and Berlin / Rashid Al-Daif, Joachim Helfer ; cover and text design, Kristi Shuey ; series editor, Wendy E. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd, author.
- Helfer, Joachim, author.
- Series:
- Modern Middle East literatures in translation series.
- Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helfer, Joachim, 1964-.
- Helfer, Joachim.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Texas : Center for Middle Eastern Studies : University of Texas, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures.He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer, who then returned the visit to al-Daif in Lebanon.
- Contents:
- ""Publisher's Note""; ""Translators' Notes""; ""How the German Came to His Senses""; ""The Queering of the World""; ""Irony and Counter-Irony in Rashid al-Daif's How the German Came to His Senses (Ken Seigneurie)""; ""Colonial Discourse and Dissent in Rashid al-Daif's and Joachim Helfer's Contributions to the West-Eastern Divan (Rebecca Dyer)""; ""The Hermeneutics of the Other: Intersubjectivity and the Limits of Narration in The Queering of the World (Michael Allan)""; ""Writing, Reading, and Talking Sex: Negotiating the Rules of an Intercultural Language Game (Gary Schmidt)""
- ""The Temple of Heteronormativity: Rashid al-Daif's How the German Came to His Senses, Joachim Helfer's The Queering of the World, and Navid Kermani's Thou Shalt-A Comparative Reading (Andreas Krass)""""Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-76311-5
- OCLC:
- 932326704
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