The homoerotics of Orientalism

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Label

The homoerotics of Orientalism

Statement of responsibility

Joseph Allen Boone

Creator

• Boone, Joseph Allen

Subject

• European literature -- History and criticism
• Homosexuality in art
• Homosexuality in literature
• Eroticism in literature
• Orientalism -- Europe
• Orientalism in art
• Orientalism in literature
• Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just.--

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Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

700.453

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography