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Robert Aldrich

Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka

Sex and Serendipity

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Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants - the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island.The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, such British and American writers as Paul Bowles… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-317-80529-8
  • EAN: 9781317805298
  • Produktnummer: 17205222
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Abbildungen: 11 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 11 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor


Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, Colonialism and Homosexuality (1993), and Gay Life Stories (2012), and the co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2013).

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