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 G�res, 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.

�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).

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