Stavros Stavrou Karayanni: 1 book

Book cover of Dancing Fear and Desire

Dancing Fear and Desire

Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009

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...
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