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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 793.3
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- aw-----
- ISBN
- 9780889209268 0889204543
- LCCN
- GV1798.5
- LCCN Item number
- K37 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 244 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00323514 (OCoLC)244763983 (CaOOCEL)402695
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Dancing fear and desire : race, sexuality and imperial politics in Middle Eastern dance
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Preface 12
- 1 Introducing Colonial and Postcolonial Dialectics on the Subject of Dance 18
- 2 Dismissal Veiling Desire: Kuchuk Hanem and Imperial Masculinity 54
- 3 The Dance of Extravagant Pleasures: Male Performers of the Orient and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze 84
- 4 Dancing Decadence: Semiotics of Dance and the Phantasm of Salomé 116
- 5 "I have seen this dance on old Greek vases": Hellenism and the Worlding of Greek Dance 138
- 6 What Dancer from Which Dance? Concluding Reflections 176
- Epilogue 204
- Notes 216
- Works Cited 238
- Index 250
- A 250
- B 250
- C 251
- D 252
- E 253
- F 253
- G 254
- H 255
- I 255
- J 256
- K 256
- L 256
- M 257
- N 257
- O 257
- P 258
- Q 258
- R 258
- S 259
- T 260
- U 260
- V 260
- W 261
- X 261
- Y 261
- Z 261
