Dancing Fear and Desire
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Dancing Fear and Desire

Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dancing Fear and Desire

Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

About this book

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 national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde's Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Preface
  4. 1 Introducing Colonial and Postcolonial Dialectics on the Subject of Dance
  5. 2 Dismissal Veiling Desire: Kuchuk Hanem and Imperial Masculinity
  6. 3 The Dance of Extravagant Pleasures: Male Performers of the Orient and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze
  7. 4 Dancing Decadence: Semiotics of Dance and the Phantasm of Salomé
  8. 5 "I have seen this dance on old Greek vases": Hellenism and the Worlding of Greek Dance
  9. 6 What Dancer from Which Dance? Concluding Reflections
  10. Epilogue
  11. Notes
  12. Works Cited
  13. Index