The Homoerotics of Orientalism

by Joseph Allen Boone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231151101
• ISBN13: 9780231151108
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.2" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher