Dancing Fear and Desire : Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance.

Dancing Fear and Desire : Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance.

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the ax...

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Main Author: Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006
Subjects:
Belly dance > Middle East.
Belly dance > Greece.
Belly dance > Political aspects.
Belly dance > Social aspects.
Gender identity in dance.
Homosexuality and dance.
Male dancers.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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