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Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Looking afresh at representations of nineteenth-century 'oriental' bodies, the contributors to this volume trace the global dissemination of racial and gendered bodies at historical moments across the globe in the media of photography, painting, prints and sculpture by contextualizing the visual within social practices, ethnography, literature, travel writing and the dynamics of imperialism. Authors examine orientalism's politico-erotic import across not only imperial Britain and France but also throughout India and the Middle East initiating cross-cultural analyses of orientalism outside of Europe. Zusammenfassung Looking 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. This book examines orientalism's politico-erotic import across not only imperial Britain and France but also throughout India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Works ...
