Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut

by Ghassan Moussawi

Book Overview

Disruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls "fractal orientalism," a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439918503
• ISBN13: 9781439918500
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"