Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Between Banat

Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1664-9 (ISBN)
103,50 inkl. MwSt
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film to show how women, femmes, and nonbinary people disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.”
In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, and prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab critique to locate queer desire amid heteronormative imperatives. Showing how systems of heteropatriarchy and Arab nationalisms foreclose queer Arab women’s futures, she draws on the transliterated term “banat”—the Arabic word for girls—to refer to women, femmes, and nonbinary people who disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.” By attending to Arab women’s narration of desire and identity, queer Arab critique substantiates queer Arab histories while challenging Orientalist and Arab national paradigms that erase queer subjects. In this way, Shomali frames queerness and Arabness as relational and transnational subject formations and contends that prioritizing transnational collectivity over politics of authenticity, respectability, and inclusion can help lead toward queer freedom.

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. A Thousand and One Scheherazades: Arab Femininities and Foreclosing Discourses  27
2. Between Women: Homoeroticism in Golden Era Egyptian Cinema  58
3. Longing in Arabic: Ambivalent Identities in Arabic Novels  90
4. Love Letters: Queer Intimacies and the Arabic Language  119
5. Sahq: Queer Femme Futures  138
Notes  175
Bibliography  187
Index  199

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 9 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4780-1664-7 / 1478016647
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1664-9 / 9781478016649
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