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opencommunion · 16 hours

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"The point to be argued is not how to qualify the status of homosexuality across the broad historical and geographical, not to mention religious, regional, class, national, and political variances of the Middle East. We must consider instead how the production of homosexuality as taboo is situated within the history of encounters with the western gaze. While in Said’s Orientalism the illicit sex found in the Orient was sought out in order to liberate the Occident from its own performance of the repressive hypothesis, in the case of Abu Ghraib, conversely, it is the (perverse) repression of the Arab prisoners that is highlighted in order to efface the rampant hypersexual excesses of the U.S. prison guards. The Orient, once conceived in Foucault’s ars erotica and Said’s deconstructive work as the place of original release, unfettered sin, and acts with no attendant identities or consequences, now symbolizes the space of repression and perversion, and the site of freedom has been relocated to western identity. Given the unbridled homophobia (among other phobias) demonstrated by the U.S. guards, it is indeed ironic, yet predictable, that the United States nonetheless emerges as sexually exceptional: less homophobic and more tolerant of homosexuality (and less tainted by misogyny and fundamentalism) than the repressed, modest, nudity-shy Middle East." Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

#imperialism #orientalism #library #posting puar as promised

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the-evil-clergyman · 3 months

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Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

#delphin enjolras #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #orientalism #concubine #odalisque #figurative #classic art

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itznarcotic · 1 year

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#sinophobia #racism #orientalism #china #japan

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emptyportrait · 1 month

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it's almost like global south's reality is some sort of aesthetic concept for white people.

#palestinian resistance #houthis #long live the resistance #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Palestine #yemen #gaza #free gaza #dune #gaza strip #imperialism #orientalism

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die-rosastrasse · 7 months

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Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

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beatricecenci · 6 months

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Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842-1902)

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#Orientalism #Francesc Masriera i Manovens #Spanish Art #Art #Israel #Mediterranean

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 5 months

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Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895) "Juive de Tanger" ("Jewish woman from Tangier") (1874) Oil on panel Orientalism Currently in a private collection

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artystyczny-nieporzadek · 1 year

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(details) The Sheik's Daughter Eduard Sack (German, born in 1857)

#Eduard Sack #art details #art detail #women #women in art #art #painting #paintings #orientalism #orientalist art

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opencommunion · 13 hours

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"We see simultaneously both the fortification of normative heterosexual coupling and the propagation of sexualities that mimic, parallel, contradict, or resist this normativity. These proliferating sexualities, and their explicit and implicit relationships to nationalism, complicate the dichotomous implications of casting the nation as only supportive and productive of heteronormativity and always repressive and disallowing of homosexuality. I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the terrorist is one discursive tactic that disaggregates U.S. national gays and queers from racial and sexual others, foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay and queer subjects themselves: homonationalism. For contemporary forms of U.S. nationalism and patriotism, the production of gay and queer bodies is crucial to the deployment of nationalism, insofar as these perverse bodies reiterate heterosexuality as the norm but also because certain domesticated homosexual bodies provide ammunition to reinforce nationalist projects."

Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

#library #imperialism #orientalism

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the-evil-clergyman · 4 months

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