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

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"Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through 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 analys...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Male dancers.
Homosexuality and dance.
Gender identity in dance.
Belly dance > Social aspects.
Belly dance.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > General.
Danseurs masculins.
Homosexualite et danse.
Identite sexuelle dans la danse.
Danse du ventre > Moyen-Orient.
Danse du ventre > Grece.
Danse du ventre > Aspect social.
Danse du ventre > Aspect politique.
Belly dance > Political aspects.
Belly dance > Greece.
Belly dance > Middle East.
Middle East.
Greece.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing colonial and postcolonial dialectics on the subject of dance
  • Dismissal veiling desire : Kuchuk Hanem and imperial masculinity
  • The dance of extravagant pleasures : male performers of the Orient and the politics of the imperial gaze
  • Dancing decadence : semiotics of dance and the phantasm of Salomé
  • "I have seen this dance on old Greek vases" : Hellenism and the worlding of Greek dance
  • What dancer from which dance? : concluding reflections.

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