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What makes a man? : sex talk in Beirut and Berlin / Rashid al-Daif, Joachim Helfer ; translated by Ken Seigneurie & Gary Schmidt.
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Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd
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English
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Austin : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, [2015]
©2015
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x, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
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PN56.H57 D35 2015
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Homosexuality in literature
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Arabic literature
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History and criticism
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German literature
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History and criticism
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Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd
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Awdat al-almani ila rushdih
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Helfer, Joachim 1964-
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Verschwulung der Welt
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Kermani, Navid 1967-
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Du sollst
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Helfer, Joachim, 1964-
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Translator
Seigneurie, Ken
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Schmidt, Gary, 1967-
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Series
Modern Middle East literatures in translation series
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Summary note
"In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer, who then returned the visit to al-Daif in Lebanon. Following their time together, al-Daif published in Arabic a literary reportage of his encounter with Helfer in which he focuses on the German writer's homosexuality. His frank observations have been variously read as trenchant, naïve, or offensive. In response, Helfer provided an equally frank point-by-point riposte to al-Daif's text. Together these writers offer a rare exploration of attitudes toward sex, love, and gender across cultural lines. By stretching the limits of both fiction and essay, they highlight the importance of literary sensitivity in understanding the Other. Rashid al-Daif's "novelized biography" and Joachim Helfer's commentary appear for the first time in English translation in What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin. Also included in this volume are essays by specialists in Arabic and German literature that shed light on the discourse around sex between these two authors from different cultural contexts."-- Back cover.
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Contents
How the German came to his senses / Rashid al-Daif ; translated by Ken Seigneurie
The queering of the world / Joachim Helfer ; translated by Ken Seigneurie & Gary Schmidt
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-East divan / Rebecca Dyer
The hermeneutics of the other : intersubjectivity and 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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Sex talk in Beirut and Berlin
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9780292763104 ((pbk.))
0292763107 ((pbk.))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 D14wh
LCCN
2014951951
OCLC
900709511
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What makes a man? : sex talk in Beirut and Berlin / Rashid Al-Daif, Joachim Helfer ; cover and text design, Kristi Shuey ; series editor, Wendy E. Moore.
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What makes a man? : sex talk in Beirut and Berlin / Rashid al-Daif, Joachim Helfer ; translated by Ken Seigneurie & Gary Schmidt.
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