Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity

ISBN-13: 9781138491502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str.

Australia) Robert (University of Sydney Aldrich

Opis

This book is primarily a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from the 1880s to the modern day. It is also an account of a wider culture, including politics, art and creativity and discusses the ways that homoeroticism figured in the lives and work of local figures, visitors and expatriates. The book argues that homosexuals played a major role in the transmission of cultural influences from Sri Lanka to the rest of the world, and from the wider world to this Indian Ocean island.An excellent study of trans-national cultural exchange, sexuality and the relationships between them, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Studies, Colonial History and Gay/Queer Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Homoeroticism and Colonial Visitors in the Victorian Age 2. Spirituality, Sex and Scandals in Turn-of-the-Century Ceylon 3. The Count de Mauny and the Gardens of Taprobane 4. Modern Art and the Homoerotic Photographs of Lionel Wendt 5. Bevis and Geoffrey Bawa, Donald Friend and Their Friends 6. Sojourners and the Seduction of Ceylon 7. Painting Men: Three Views 8. Gay Lanka? Conclusion

O autorze

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, Colonialism and Homosexuality (1993), and Gay Life Stories (2012), and the co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2013).