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

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ISBN-10: 0889204543

ISBN-13: 9780889204546

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, S. S. Karayanni

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Stavros Stavrou Karayanni'spublications 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 has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia and the University of Calgary in Alberta. Currently he is an assistant professor of English literature at Cyprus College in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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 Salome
"I have seen this dance on old Greek vases" : Hellenism and the worlding of Greek dance
What dancer from which dance? : concluding reflections