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ID125731
Title ProperQueer affects
Other Title Informationintroduction
LanguageENG
AuthorAl-Samman, Hanadi ;  El-Ariss, Tarek
Publication2013.
Summary / Abstract (Note)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.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.45, No.2; 2013: p.205-209
Journal SourceInternational Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.45, No.2; 2013: p.205-209
Key WordsQueer Studies ;  Social Realities - Middle Eastern ;  Political Realities - Middle Eastern ;  Middle Eastern