Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and Faculty Affiliate in Film and Media Studies, English, Gender and Women's Studies, and the Center for Asian Research, USA. Joan DelPlato is Professor of Art History, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA, USA.

• List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction: Rethinking Orientalism, Eroticism and Cross-Cultural Visuality 1Julie Codell and Joan DelPlatoPART I: RACE, ETHNICITY AND THE ABJECT ORIENTAL2 Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism 25James Smalls3 Delacroix’s Invitation to the Jewish Wedding in Morocco 55Albert Boime4 Seeing through “The Veil Trick”: Heterotopic Eroticism in Monti’s Sculpture Circassian Slave at the Crystal Palace in 1851 83Joan DelPlatoPART II: DISCOURSES OF PROJECTION AND CULTURAL CROSS-DRESSING5 The Conceit of Burton’s Scar: Orientalism as Identity and Transgression 115Julie Codell6 Other Desires and the Desire of Others 141Mary RobertsPART III: CIRCULATING AND RE-CIRCULATING ORIENTAL EROTICS7 Sapphism and the Seraglio: Refl ections on the Queer Female Gaze and Orientalism 163Reina Lewis8 European Fantasies and Awadhi Aspirations: From a “Turkish” Harem to a Lucknowi Zenana 181Saleema WaraichWorks

’This is an important work. An admirably learned, focused, nuanced volume that follows a theme that is central, but rarely examined in-depth, through a fascinating variety of cultural and geographic locales-from Morocco to India. It should be read by anyone interested in artistic Orientalism and Exoticism, or the complexity and variety of desires they engage.’ Frederick N. Bohrer, Hood College, author of Orientalism and Visual Culture