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29%OFFJoseph Boone - The Homoerotics of Orientalism - 9780231151115 - V9780231151115
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The Homoerotics of Orientalism

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Description for The Homoerotics of Orientalism Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages, 250 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2AB; DSB; HPDF; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 265 x 40. Weight in Grams: 976.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151115
SKU
V9780231151115
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About Joseph Boone
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 Center, and the American ... Read more

Reviews for The Homoerotics of Orientalism
A masterpiece and rare achievement; a completely new and convincing reading of a body of politicized knowledge that has dominated much of the field in the last thirty years. The entire concept of Orientalism will have to be totally rethought following Boone's book.
Moshe Sluhovsky, Vigevani Chair in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book offers an erudite ... Read more

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