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This “novelized biography” by Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif and pointed riposte by German novelist Joachim Helfer demonstrate how attitudes toward sex and masculinity across cultural contexts are intertwined with the work of fiction, thereby highlighti

Table of Contents
  • Publisher’s Note
  • Translators’ Notes
  • How the German Came to His Senses
  • The Queering of the World
  • Essays
  • Irony and Counter-Irony in Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses (Ken Seigneurie)
  • Colonial Discourse and Dissent in Rashid al-Daif’s and Joachim Helfer’s Contributions to the West-Eastern Divan (Rebecca Dyer)
  • The Hermeneutics of the Other: Intersubjectivity and the Limits of Narration in The Queering of the World (Michael Allan)
  • Writing, Reading, and Talking Sex: Negotiating the Rules of an Intercultural Language Game (Gary Schmidt)
  • The Temple of Heteronormativity: Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses, Joachim Helfer’s The Queering of the World, and Navid Kermani’s Thou Shalt—A Comparative Reading (Andreas Krass)

What Makes a Man Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 15/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9780292763104, 978-0292763104
      ISBN10: 0292763107
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      Gender studies: men and boys

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This “novelized biography” by Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif and pointed riposte by German novelist Joachim Helfer demonstrate how attitudes toward sex and masculinity across cultural contexts are intertwined with the work of fiction, thereby highlighti

      Table of Contents
      • Publisher’s Note
      • Translators’ Notes
      • How the German Came to His Senses
      • The Queering of the World
      • Essays
      • Irony and Counter-Irony in Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses (Ken Seigneurie)
      • Colonial Discourse and Dissent in Rashid al-Daif’s and Joachim Helfer’s Contributions to the West-Eastern Divan (Rebecca Dyer)
      • The Hermeneutics of the Other: Intersubjectivity and the Limits of Narration in The Queering of the World (Michael Allan)
      • Writing, Reading, and Talking Sex: Negotiating the Rules of an Intercultural Language Game (Gary Schmidt)
      • The Temple of Heteronormativity: Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses, Joachim Helfer’s The Queering of the World, and Navid Kermani’s Thou Shalt—A Comparative Reading (Andreas Krass)

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