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Author Shomali, Mejdulene Bernard, 1982- author.

Title Between Banat : queer Arab critique and transnational Arab archives / Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations
Contents A Thousand and One Scheherazades: Arab Femininities and Foreclosing Discourses -- Between Women: Homoeroticism in Golden Era Egyptian Cinema -- Longing in Arabic: Ambivalent Identities in Arabic Novels -- Love Letters: Queer Intimacies and the Arabic Language -- Sahq: Queer Femme Futures
Summary "Between Banat presents a feminist and queer of color analysis of homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women as represented in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. It draws on a dynamic archive of Arabic and Anglophone film and literature, as well as works in translation and transliteration to outline dominant discourses which make representing queer Arab subjects difficult. Between Banat establishes queer Arab critique as a strategy to read around limiting discourses and proposes tenets to make possible queer Arab futures. Mejdulene Bernard Shomali demonstrates how systems of heteropatriarchy, Arab nationalisms, and Orientalism work in relation to mire queer Arab women's horizons and uses queer Arab critique to locate queer desire amidst heteronormative imperatives."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Women, Arab -- Social conditions
Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions
Lesbianism -- Arab countries
Feminism -- Arab countries
Lesbianism in literature.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Queer theory.
Sex -- Arab countries
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
Women -- Social conditions
Women, Arab -- Social conditions
Sex
Queer theory
Lesbianism in motion pictures
Lesbianism in literature
Lesbianism
Feminism
Arab countries
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022028077
ISBN 9781478023906
1478023902