Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Between Banat

Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film to show how women, femmes, and nonbinary people disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.”

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016649
• ISBN-10: 1478016647
• Artikelnr.: 63563145

Autorenporträt

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. A Thousand and One Scheherazades: Arab Femininities and Foreclosing
Discourses  27
2. Between Women: Homoeroticism in Golden Era Egyptian Cinema  58
3. Longing in Arabic: Ambivalent Identities in Arabic Novels  90
4. Love Letters: Queer Intimacies and the Arabic Language  119
5. Sahq: Queer Femme Futures  138
Notes  175
Bibliography  187
Index  199