Title: The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Description: The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just.
Subjects: Orientalism in literature, Orientalism in art, Homosexuality in art, Middle Eastern literature, Orientalism, History and criticism, European literature, Eroticism in literature, Homosexuality in literature, East and west, Sexual Behavior, History