Joan DelPlato Co-Editor of Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures

In Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century ’oriental’ bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracing their global dissemination at cross-cultural intersections of the visual and the political. The authors consider the impact of eroticized orientalist representations registered on racial and gendered bodies at historical moments across the globe in the media of photography, painting, prints, and sculpture by contextualizing the visual within social practices, ethnography, literature, travel writing and the dynamics of imperialism.