Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality xvii
5. Part I : Theory and History
6. 1. Histories of cross-cultural encounter, orientalism, and the politics of sexuality 3
7. 2. Beautiful Boys, sodomy, and Hamams: a textual and visual History of tropes 51
8. Part II: Geographies of desire
9. 3. Empire of ‘excesse, ’ city of dreams; Homoerotic imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman world 111
10. 4. Epic ambitions and epicurean appetites; egyptian stories I 163
11. 5. Colonialism and its aftermaths, Gide to Chahine ; Egyptian stories II 223
12. Part III ; Modes and Genres
13. 6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres ; Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes 255
14. 7. Looking Backward; Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting And Orientalist Art 305
15. 8. Looking Again ; Twentieth- And Twenty-First- Century Visual Cultures 361
16. Notes 423
17. Index 475