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Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance
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Reads belly dance through postcolonialism and queer theory. 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 axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance -- an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through literary criticism, historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde's Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #213080 in Books
- Published on: 2004-12-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
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About the Author
Stavros Stavrou Karayanni's publications include critical and creative work on culture, politics, gender, and sexuality in the Middle East. He has presented and performed at international conferences and cultural festivals. He teaches at the University of Calgary. READERSHIP: Suitable for courses in postcolonial literatures, queer theory, and cultural studies.
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Not only female energy
Stavros Karayanni writes about Oriental dance not only as a historian of dance but as a dancing historian. Scholarly but personal, well-illustrated & wide-ranging, with particular attention to the dangerous borderlands, spiritual & physical - of gender, of performer/audience, of the carefully constructed 'Orient' & 'nation' as expressed in dance: this book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in Middle Eastern/ Oriental/ belly dance.
