Queer Jews, queer Muslims : race, religion, and representation / edited by Adi Saleem.
| Other author | Saleem, Adi, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2024] |
| Description | viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Why Jewish, Muslim, and Queer? / Adi Saleem -- Boundary Crossings and Intersectionality. Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity / Katrina Daly Thompson -- Queer Disguises: Jewish Women's Performance of Race and Gender in the Colonial Maghreb / Edwige Crucifix -- "A Living Tableau of Queerness": The Orient at the Crossroads of Genre and Gender in Proust's Recherche / Amr Kamal -- Public Discourse and Identity. Queering the Abrahamic Scriptures / Shanon Shah -- A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Discursive Construction of LGBT Muslims and Jews in UK Media / Robert Phillips -- Building Community, Forging Solidarity. Religious Life Is Life Together: Ritual, Liminality, and Communitas among Queer Jews in Postsecular Britain / Matthew Richardson -- Eid Parties, Iftar Dinners, and Pride Parades: Navigating Queer Muslim Identity through Community / Elizabeth Johnstone -- Afterword: Lessons in Historical Nominalism / David M. Halperin. |
| Abstract | "Through a curated selection of scholarship, Adi Saleem demonstrates that representations of Muslim and Jewish sexuality are often racialized and gendered in parallel ways as non-Western, deviant, and dangerous within Euro-American modernity. Contributors reckon with the intertwined past and present of Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, coloniality, misogyny, and homophobia through distinct and complementary perspectives. In the first of three sections, scholars investigate the construction and performance of multiple identities and the crossing of boundaries. Studies of scriptural texts and media discourse as they shape perceptions of Jewish and Muslim gender and sexual minorities follow, highlighting how these representations impact the lived experiences of queer Jews and Muslims. The final section examines the efforts of contemporary queer Jews and Muslims to organize and form communities to forge solidarity in the face of multiple forms of oppression and marginalization. In conversation with Islamic studies, Jewish studies, and queer theory, this collection explores the interrelated experiences and representations of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Europe while triangulating the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third variable: queerness."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780814350874 |
| ISBN | 0814350879 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780814350881 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0814350887 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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