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Dancing fear & desire [[electronic resource] ] : race, sexuality and imperial politics in Middle Eastern dance / / Stavros Stavrou Karayanni



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Autore: Karayanni Stavros Stavrou <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dancing fear & desire [[electronic resource] ] : race, sexuality and imperial politics in Middle Eastern dance / / Stavros Stavrou Karayanni Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina: 793.3
Soggetto topico: Belly dance - Middle East
Belly dance - Greece
Belly dance - Political aspects
Belly dance - Social aspects
Gender identity in dance
Homosexuality and dance
Male dancers
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introducing Colonial and Postcolonial Dialectics on the Subject of Dance; 2 Dismissal Veiling Desire: Kuchuk Hanem and Imperial Masculinity; 3 The Dance of Extravagant Pleasures: Male Performers of the Orient and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze; 4 Dancing Decadence: Semiotics of Dance and the Phantasm of Salomé; 5 ""I have seen this dance on old Greek vases"": Hellenism and the Worlding of Greek Dance; 6 What Dancer from Which Dance? Concluding Reflections; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and natio
Titolo autorizzato: Dancing fear & desire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-55458-719-0
1-280-28073-5
9786610280735
0-88920-926-X
1-4175-6370-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910449903303321
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Serie: Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)