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Boys abducted : the homoerotics of empire and race in early modernity / Abdulhamit Arvas.
Van Pelt Library PR408.H65 A78 2025
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR408.H65 A78 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arvas, Abdulhamit, 1984- Author.
- Series:
- Theory Q http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/21cbcd0d-fccd-e738-caad-62f832b409de
- Theory Q
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Turkish literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Turkish literature.
- Boys in literature.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Gay erotic literature.
- Exoticism in literature.
- Abduction in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Boys Abducted investigates the relationship between homoeroticism, race, and empire before modernity. The book concerns racially, religiously, culturally exoticized boys who were forcibly taken from their native lands and made into objects of servitude and desire. Looking to the abducted boy as a literary and historical figure, Abdulhamit Arvas explores the complex homoerotic subtexts of racial and religious difference and imperial violence in both the emergent empire of England and the Ottoman empire. Arvas argues that boys who were abducted, exchanged, and circulated are both indicative of and caught up in larger cultural, economic, and political practices that contribute to and sustain the homoerotics of imperialism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Traveling boys in the Mediterranean
- Mapping boys on the horizon
- (In)visible boys in English abductions
- Refashioning boys
- Regendering boys
- Staging boys, 1690-1990
- The Orientalization of boy love: A conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Arvas, Abdulhamit, 1984- Boys abducted
- ISBN:
- 9781478031581
- 1478031581
- 9781478028413
- 1478028416
- OCLC:
- 1442730985
- Publisher Number:
- 90101514955
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