Queer Affects

Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID8970520
AuthorsHanadi Al-Samman (corresponding author), Tarek El‐Ariss, Tarek El-Ariss
Year2013
Volume45
Issue2
Pages205-209
Publication date2013-04-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743813000032
OpenAlexW2143026260
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited4

When we and several authors of the articles included here originally debated the idea of this special issue, our aim was to respond to what we perceived as a standstill that locks Middle Eastern queer studies into a premodern Eastern versus modern Western-oriented division. While the East is studied as a repository of tradition with an identifiable sexual and amorous nomenclature, the West is often presented as a fixed hegemonic structure distinct from the East, regardless of the long traditions of cultural exchange and the specific forms of translation and dialogue that take shape when the identities and models of desire associated with the West travel or are performed outside it or at its periphery. This division has generated a set of binaries pertaining to the applicability of terms (gay, lesbian, homosexual) and theoretical frameworks (queer theory) to Middle Eastern literary and cultural contexts. It is our belief that critical engagements with queer Arab and Iranian sexualities in literature and culture ought to situate current discussions in queer theory within debates and concerns arising from specific Middle Eastern social and political realities

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Hegemony · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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