Joseph Allen Boone: Furnace Creek

USA 2023; 374 pp.; broschur, € 24.95
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Black Spring Press Group
Taking its inspiration from »Great Expectations«, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues, racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle, that galvanized the world in those decades.
A guilty encounter with ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Allen Boone: The Homoerotics of Orientalism

USA 2015, 520 pp., brochure, € 49.99
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Columbia University Press
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with »deviant« male homosexuality by scores of Western travellers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of ... Weiterlesen