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The Homoerotics of Orientalism - Boone, Joseph
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. Examining European accounts of sites like Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, and unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable work models an ethics of ...

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism 2015, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231151115

Trade paperback

The Homoerotics of Orientalism 2014, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231151108

Hardcover