The erotic margin : sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse
"Informed by the recent literature on human geography as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, The Erotic Margin focusses on erotica and sexual anthropology as well as travel literature in which, from the eighteenth century on, both traveler and destination were portrayed in unmistakably gendered and sexualized terms. Reviewing examples ranging from the New World to India, the Near East to black Africa, and the South Sea Islands to the Barbary Coast, the book reflects on why foreign women were variously portrayed as alluring or threatening, foreign men as effeminate weaklings or dangerous rapists, and foreign lands as sexual idylls or hearts of darkness."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Verso, London, 1999