Desiring Arabs
by Joseph A. Massad
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Author: Joseph A. MassadEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-15
ISBN: 0226509591
Number of pages: 472
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Book Review: thoughtful extension of said's thesis
Summary: 5 Stars
The work at hnd is thoroughly researched and passionately argued. It provides a summary of how Arabic speaking scholars viewed their own literary tradition and how their views changed under western influence and later in reaction to such influence. The summaries of poetry, novels, and films are very helpful but the core of the book is theoretical, a challenge to the imposition of european based theories of sexuality on the diversity of experience and sexualities among men in the former Ottoman empire.The book rightly challenges the sexual typology developed by liberationist rhetoric and corrects the frequent attempts to waylay medieval and other authors writing in Arabic into the 'gay' camp. From both an historical and anthropological perspective the book makes sense (to me at least) because it testifies to the gap between labels and the polymorphous and elusive nature of sexual desire. It also respects the differences in people and cultures over time.
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