Queer world making : contemporary Middle Eastern diasporic art / Andrew Gayed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gayed, Andrew, author.

Series:

Critical ethnic studies and visual culture.

Critical ethnic studies and visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and art.

Homosexuality and art--Middle East.

Sexual minorities in art.

LGBTQ+ people in visual art.

Art, Middle Eastern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Art, Middle Eastern.

East and West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]

Summary:

Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work in order to imagine a different present. Building on global art histories and transnational queer theory, Queer World Making illuminates contemporary understandings of queer sexuality in the Middle Eastern diaspora. The author focuses on the visual works of artists who create political art about queer identity, including Jamil Hellu, Ebrin Bagheri, 2Fik, Laurence Rasti, Nilbar Güres, and Alireza Shojaian. 0Through engaging with these artists, Gayed is seeking to articulate a Western and non-Western modernity that works beyond the dichotomy of sexual oppression, stereotypically associated with the Middle East, versus sexual acceptance, attributed to North American norms. Instead, Gayed traces how diasporic subjects create coming-out narratives and identities that provide alternatives to inscribed Western models. Queer World Making reframes Arab homosexualities in terms of desire and alternative gender norms rather than through Western notions of visibility and coming out, narratives that are not conducive to understanding how queer Arabs living in the West experience their sexuality.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Autotheory: A Queer Feminist Practice

Introduction: Queer World Making and Deimperializing Visual Culture

Part One: Decolonial Methods: Imagininga Horizontal Art History and Queer Theory

One: Thinking Decolonially: Horizontal Methods to Queer Theory and Art History

Two: Trauma and the Single Narrative: Reading Arab Artand Photography

Three: Islamicate as Method: Minor Transnationalisms and Worlding Art History

Part Two: Queer Diasporic World Making: Visualizing Place, Race, and Self

Four: An Alternative History of Sexuality: Diaspora Consciousness and the Queer Diasporic Lens

Five: Queering Archives of Photography: Linking a Colonial History to a Diasporic Present

Six: Coming Out à l'Orientale: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds

Seven: Historicizing Homophobia: Contesting the Double Binds of Homocolonialism and Homonationalism

Conclusion: Queer World Making, Diaspora Consciousness,and Futurity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295752303

0295752300

OCLC:

1428197112