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What Makes a Man?: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin

What Makes a Man?: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin

Al-Daif, Rashid

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation

Letters & EssaysMen's StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 0292763107
ISBN13: 9780292763104
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 15 2015
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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