| ISBN |
0231151101 (hbk.) |
| 9780231151108 (hbk.) |
| Author |
Boone, Joseph Allen |
| Title |
The homoerotics of orientalism / [by] Joseph Allen Boone |
| Publisher |
New York : Columbia University Press, 2014 |
| Physical desc. |
xxxiv, 486 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. [33], fig. 1.8 (T 439, f. 96); p. 76, fig. 2.17 (Per 297, f. 16a); plate 1, (fig. 1.8, col.) (T 439, f. 96). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-473) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: re-orienting sexuality -- Theory and history. Histories of cross-cultural encounter, orientalism, and the politics of sexuality -- Beautiful boys, sodomy, and hamams: a textual and visual history of tropes -- Geographies of desire. Empire of 'excesse', city of dreams: homoerotic imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman world -- Epic ambitions and epicurean appetites: Egyptian stories I -- Colonialism and its aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian stories II -- Modes and genres. Queer modernism and Middle Eastern poetic genres: appropriations, forgeries, and hoaxes -- Looking backward: homoeroticism in miniature and orientalist art -- Looking again: twentieth- and twentieth-first-century visual cultures. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 297 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439 |
| Eroticism in literature |
| Homosexuality in literature |
| Homosexuality in art |
| Orientalism in literature |
| Orientalism in art |
| Orientalism -- Europe -- History |
| Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism |
| European literature -- History and criticism |
