On Pre-Colonial Arab Queerness; Abu Nuwas's Homoeroticism as a Site of Investigation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Arab notions of sexuality are rich with literary and aesthetic explorations and representations, particularly as they exist in male same-sex romantic and sexual relations. Among such representations, and of the earliest that exist, is the homoerotic collection of poetry, Ghazal, written by the classical Abbasid period Arab poet Abu Nuwas al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī, otherwise known as Abu Nuwas. In the 21st century, Arab Queer representations and explorations slowly migrated into other mediums of aesthetic representation, including and mostly in autobiographical novels. These include, as pertinent to the research paper at hand, Saleem Haddad’s Guapa, Mohammed Abdel Nabi’s In The Spider’s Room, and Abdellah Taïa’s Salvation Army. Recognizing this aesthetic migration, representations of homoeroticism in Abu Nuwas’s poetry might not only offer a site of investigation for a pre-colonial Arab Queer experience that is separate from Western definitions of Queerness rooted in the Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s, but might also carry forward in modern conceptions of Arab Queerness, as can be traced in the three autobiographical novels earlier mentioned.
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| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | May 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Daoud, Hamzeh |
|---|---|
| Primary advisor | Al-Saber, Samer |
| Advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
Subjects
| Subject | Arab Queerness |
|---|---|
| Subject | Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity |
| Subject | School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Subject | Joseph Massad |
| Subject | Abu Nuwas |
| Subject | Poetry |
| Subject | Queer |
| Subject | Sexuality |
| Subject | Comparative Literature |
| Subject | Jasbir Puar |
| Subject | Edward Said |
| Subject | Michael Foucault |
| Genre | Thesis |
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