Queer Beirut /
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| Author / Creator: | Merabet, Sofian, 1972- author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014. |
| Description: | xvii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10094817 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Itinerant Journeys
- Introduction
- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon
- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence
- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu
- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism
- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut
- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia
- 7. The Gay Gaze and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walkthrough Zoqaq al-Blat
- 8. "Seeing Oneself" and the Mirror Stage: The Hammam and the Gay Icon Fairuz
- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies
- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life
- Conclusion: Struggling for Difference
- Notes
- Glossary of Transliterated Arabic Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
