TY - BOOK AU - Boone,Joseph Allen TI - The homoerotics of Orientalism SN - 978-0-231-15110-8 U1 - 809.93353 23E PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Eroticism in literature KW - Orientalism in literature KW - Homosexuality in art KW - Orientalism in art KW - European literature / History and criticism KW - Middle Eastern literature / History and criticism KW - Orientalism / Europe N1 - Notes bibliogr; 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 -- Postscript ER -