Queer World Making
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An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work in order to imagine a different present. Building on global art histories and transnational queer theory, Queer World Making illuminates contemporary understandings of queer sexuality in the Middle Eastern diaspora. The author focuses on the visual works of artists who create political art about queer identity, including Jamil Hellu, Ebrin Bagheri, 2Fik, Laurence Rasti, Nilbar Güres, and Alireza Shojaian.
Through engaging with these artists, Gayed is seeking to articulate a Western and non-Western modernity that works beyond the dichotomy of sexual oppression, stereotypically associated with the Middle East, versus sexual acceptance, attributed to North American norms. Instead, Gayed traces how diasporic subjects create coming-out narratives and identities that provide alternatives to inscribed Western models. Queer World Making reframes Arab homosexualities in terms of desire and alternative gender norms rather than through Western notions of visibility and coming out, narratives that are not conducive to understanding how queer Arabs living in the West experience their sexuality.
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Andrew Gayed is assistant professor of art history and visual culture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Autotheory: A Queer Feminist Practice
- Introduction: Queer World Making and Deimperializing Visual Culture
- Part One: Decolonial Methods: Imagininga Horizontal Art History and Queer Theory
- One: Thinking Decolonially: Horizontal Methods to Queer Theory and Art History
- Two: Trauma and the Single Narrative: Reading Arab Artand Photography
- Three: Islamicate as Method: Minor Transnationalisms and Worlding Art History
- Part Two: Queer Diasporic World Making: Visualizing Place, Race, and Self
- Four: An Alternative History of Sexuality: Diaspora Consciousness and the Queer Diasporic Lens
- Five: Queering Archives of Photography: Linking a Colonial History to a Diasporic Present
- Six: Coming Out à l'Orientale: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds
- Seven: Historicizing Homophobia: Contesting the Double Binds of Homocolonialism and Homonationalism
- Conclusion: Queer World Making, Diaspora Consciousness,and Futurity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
