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The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Paperback)
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The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Paperback)
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to
which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male
homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers,
and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands
to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and
how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and
desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how
the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always
been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose.
Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as
hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres
and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding
in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable
study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with
nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of
Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. A
contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and
social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism draws on primary
sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and
European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic
erotica that are presented here for the first time.
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