December 4, 2025HumanitiesOpen Access

Eastern Dancers and the Western Gaze: The Queer Spectacle of Oriental Dance in Decadent Poetry

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Decadence and Orientalism shape cultural understandings of Eastern dance across literature, highlighting resistance.
The study highlights postcolonial literature's critique of colonial perceptions of Eastern dancers and their cultural identities.
Cultural histories inform the complexities of queer representations within the context of Eastern dance traditions.
Analysis focuses on connections between three poems, revealing the interplay of colonialism and anti-colonial sentiment in literature.

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This analysis reveals enduring connections between decadence and Orientalism in literature, showing how postcolonial literature resists colonial narratives around Eastern dances.

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Gunja Nandi (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6930e8dbea1aef094cca3c49 https://doi.org/10.3390/h14120233

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This analysis reveals enduring connections between decadence and Orientalism in literature, showing how postcolonial literature resists colonial narratives around Eastern dances.

Eastern Dancers and the Western Gaze: The Queer Spectacle of Oriental Dance in Decadent Poetry

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Eastern Dancers and the Western Gaze: The Queer Spectacle of Oriental Dance in Decadent Poetry

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