Queer World Making

Andrew Gayed

ISBN 10: 0295752297 / ISBN 13: 9780295752297

Edité par University Of Washington Press Mär 2024, 2024

A propos de cet article

Neuware -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 Gèures, and Alireza Shojaian. 0Through 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. 324 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Queer World Making
• Éditeur: University Of Washington Press Mär 2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295752297
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295752297
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 226 L x 187 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 226 millimètres de largeur par 187 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 745 grammes

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Synopsis

A survey of little-studied sacred African bells and ritual objectsSummoning the Ancestors explores a collection of 72 ofo (small ritual objects) and 74 bells produced in southern Nigeria by Igala, Igbo, Edo, Yorùbá, and other neighboring peoples, which was gifted to the Fowler Museum by Mark Clayton. The use of bronze ofo, dynamic symbols of one’s relationship with the ancestors, dates back to at least the fifteenth century. Ofo likely derive from wire-wrapped bundles of twigs from a tree venerated in southern Nigeria. Bells—largely made in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries—were cast in copper alloys of bronze or brass, using the lost-wax technique. Many were rung to invoke ancestors or nature spirits, and some announced the presence of important members of the living world, such as priests or local rulers. Richly illustrated, Summoning the Ancestors highlights the remarkable degree of variation possible even in such modest artistic genres.

À propos des auteurs

Andrew Gayed is assistant professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. His work has been published in Photography and Culture, Journal for Studies in Art Education, and the Journal of Anthropology of Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia.

Laura Kina is professor of art, critical ethnic studies, and global Asian studies at DePaul University. She is the coeditor of Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017) and War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2013).