{"product_id":"richard-burton-te-lawrence-and-the-culture-of-homoerotic-desire-orientalist-depictions-of-arab-sexuality-9781784535698","title":"Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of 'respectability', 'propriety' and 'sexual morality' were being transformed in literary and cultural discourses, a shift that was related to the gradual rise in anti-Ottoman Arab nationalism. However, contemporary Orientalists such as Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence were oblivious to certain aspects of this process of cultural reconfiguration. While accounts of male-love poetry (\u003ci\u003eghazal al-mudhakkar\u003c\/i\u003e) were being gradually expurgated from the Arab literary heritage, elaborate narratives of Oriental homoerotic desire distinctively characterise the encounters of both Burton and Lawrence with the Arab East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy comparing their literary and autobiographical accounts of the Arab Orient with contemporary Arabic literature, Feras Alkabani is able to expose this critical disparity in cross-cultural portrayals of sexual morality and homoerotic desire. Alkabani relates the conflicting agendas of contemporary Orientalists and Arab scholars to the shifts in international imperial power relations and the eventual collapse of the Ottoman Empire. His detailed comparative study reveals the significance of homoerotic desire within Orientalist and Arab literary discourses at a time when the meaning and connotations of poetic male-love were undergoing a critical change in Arab culture and literature. It will prove invaluable for those researching Orientalism, nationalism, imperialism and manifestations of homoerotic desire in the fin-de-si?cle Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Feras Alkabani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784535698","brand":"I. B. Tauris \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43195560296585,"sku":"9781784535698","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_88d9f9e2-2826-4b7e-8ed7-39151e0a2ddf.jpg?v=1733862188","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/richard-burton-te-lawrence-and-the-culture-of-homoerotic-desire-orientalist-depictions-of-arab-sexuality-9781784535698","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}