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Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures book cover

1st Edition

Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures

Edited By Joan DelPlato, Julie Codell Copyright 2016
234 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

In Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century ’oriental’ bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracing their global dissemination at cross-cultural intersections of the visual and the political. Authors consider the impact of eroticized orientalist representations registered on racial and gendered... Read more

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Introduction: Rethinking Orientalism, Eroticism and Cross-Cultural Visuality 1

Julie Codell and Joan DelPlato

PART I: RACE, ETHNICITY AND THE ABJECT ORIENTAL

2 Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism 25

James Smalls

3 Delacroix’s Invitation to the Jewish Wedding in Morocco 55

Albert Boime

4 Seeing through “The Veil Trick”: Heterotopic Eroticism in Monti’s Sculpture Circassian Slave at the Crystal Palace in 1851 83

Joan DelPlato

PART II: DISCOURSES OF PROJECTION AND CULTURAL CROSS-DRESSING

5 The Conceit of Burton’s Scar: Orientalism as Identity and Transgression 115

Julie Codell

6 Other Desires and the Desire of Others 141

Mary Roberts

PART III: CIRCULATING AND RE-CIRCULATING ORIENTAL EROTICS

7 Sapphism and the Seraglio: Refl ections on the Queer Female Gaze and Orientalism 163

Reina Lewis

8 European Fantasies and Awadhi Aspirations: From a “Turkish” Harem to a Lucknowi Zenana 181

Saleema Waraich

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Biography

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and Faculty Affiliate in Film and Media Studies, English, Gender and Women's Studies, and the Center for Asian Research, USA. Joan DelPlato is Professor of Art History, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA, USA.

’This is an important work. An admirably learned, focused, nuanced volume that follows a theme that is central, but rarely examined in-depth, through a fascinating variety of cultural and geographic locales-from Morocco to India. It should be read by anyone interested in artistic Orientalism and Exoticism, or the complexity and variety of desires they engage.’ Frederick N. Bohrer, Hood College, author of Orientalism and Visual Culture
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