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10%OFFFeras Alkabani - Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies) - 9781784535698 - V9781784535698
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Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies)

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Description for Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies) hardcover. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Series: Library of Ottoman Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of ‘respectability’, ‘propriety’ and ‘sexual morality’ were being transformed in literary and cultural discourses, a shift that was related to the gradual rise in anti-Ottoman Arab nationalism. However, contemporary Orientalists such as Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence were oblivious to certain aspects of this process of cultural reconfiguration. While accounts of male-love poetry (ghazal al-mudhakkar) were being gradually expurgated from the Arab literary heritage, elaborate narratives of Oriental homoerotic desire distinctively characterise the encounters of both ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
I.B. Tauris United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Library of Ottoman Studies
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535698
SKU
V9781784535698
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About Feras Alkabani
Feras Alkabani is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Sussex, where he co-directs the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS). He is a Trustee of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies ... Read more

Reviews for Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies)
Fantasies of perverse sexuality forged relations between the Anglo-European and Arab worlds, with both cultures projecting lurid aberrations (and abominations) on the Other in an ever-oscillating dance between desire and repulsion. With subtlety, keen insight, and close attention to Burton and Lawrence’s highly partial ethnography and loaded translations, Feras Alkabani tracks the fluctuations of this unappeasable mutual curiosity. Reading the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies)


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