Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa

Presents new perspectives on queervisual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africaregion from queer artists as well as scholars whowork on queer themes. With contributions fromboth scholars and artists, this volumedemonstrates that queer visual culture in theSWANA region is not only extant, but is alsoentering an era of exciting growth in terms of itsversatility and consciousness. The volume focuseson artworks produced in the contemporary erawhile recognizing historical and contextualconnections to Islamic art and culture within localities and regions from the pre-modern andmodern eras. By framing this volume asunambiguously located within queer studies, theeditors challenge existing literature that merelyincludes some examples of queer studies or queerrepresentation, but does not necessarily use queerstudies as a lens through which to engage withvisual culture and/or with the SWANA region.Through four interrelated sections - Gender andNormativity, Trans* Articulations, IntersectionalSexuality, and Queer SWANA - this volume probesseveral previously unexplored academic areas,namely the intersections of queer studies withother fields. Part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle Eastseries.