The Homoerotics of Orientalism
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 023115111X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 520 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended. (Modern Philology) . Read The Homoerotics of Orientalism and discover that Boone has taken the necessary steps in offering oneself up to unsuspected, multiple ways of being. (Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide)This remarkable study models an ethics of cross-cultural 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. (Journal of Modern History)Meticulously researched. Treating a broad range of Western representations of the "Orient", Boone provides an important corrective to Edward Said's Orientalism by addressing the powerful ways in which Europeans writers' and artists' representations of homoeroticism in the "Orient" have covertly enabled the appeal of orientalism as a predominantly male mode of discourse. A must read for sch
Joseph Allen Boone is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California and the author of Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism and Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington, the Stanford Humanity Cen
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. 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. 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.. 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
"There's much to learn from this book!" according to Frank Cooper. Fascinating, scholarly study of neglected aspects of Western eroticism influenced by the East. If it doesn't read like a detective novel, that's not because it isn't the result of solid detective work, sound reasoning, and acute sensitivity to the meaning of the information. This is a real study for serious folk to conside. "blah blah blah" according to othoniaboys. A century ago, an Orientalist would have been a European savant who had deeply studied the cultures of Asia and North Africa. Since 1978 or so, an Orientalist is now a European bigot with a load of misconceptions about the Islamic (or, as Boone puts it, the "Islamicate") world. I am an elderly gay man who lived in Morocco