...by jungly overgrowth of all kinds. As Edward Said argues, "the East" (and here "Africa") represented "not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat),...untiring sensuality, unlimited desire, deep generative energies."22 What is most fascinating about the Tenerife episode is what happens with gender, particularly...

...in his famous discussion of orientalism, "the Orient seems to suggest [to the Western imagination] not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat),...sensuality, unlimited desire, deep generative energies" (1978, 188). This description identifies the Oriental stereotype as essentially female—as opposed...

..."Orientalism."6 He refers to such theoretical absence in his own discourse in the following passage: Why the Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity...analysis here, alas, despite its frequently noted appearance.7 After Said, many theorists (such as Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Homi Bhabha) have developed...

...Curiously, though, Said stops short of elaborating the full implications of orientalist sexuality: "Why the Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat)... is not the province of my analysis here, alas, despite its frequently noted appearance." 11 Yet, within...

...desire" (197). Edward Said echoes Praz's equation but exposes the tensions implicit in such a formula: "Why the Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity...energies, is something on which one could speculate" (188). However, what particularly interests me is how this equation of exoticism and eroticism modifies...

...malleability."9 Located in the so-called matrix of civilization, the orient is a highly sexualized site, seeming to suggest "not only fecundity but sexual promise...sensuality, unlimited desire, deep generative energies." For the West, with its more rigid ethos of sexual behavior, "the Orient was a place where one could...

...sexualization of the Orient has been a persistent motif in Western narratives. As Edward Said notes, "[t]he Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat), untiring sexuality, unlimited desire, deep generative energies" (Orientalism [London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,...

...(207); and of sexuality. In a sentence that indicates one of Said's few failures of nerve, he writes: "Why the Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity...threat), untiring sensuality, unlimited desire, deep generation energies, is something on which one could speculate" (188). Nineteenth- and early twentieth-...

...through its women. In Orientalism Edward Said writes that for the western man, the Orient suggests "not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat), untiring sensuality, unlimited desire" (1979: 146). Salih's protagonist directly reverses this view, seeing Europe as the location to unleash...

...University Press, 1990), p. 1-26. 4.6 VACATION CRUISES; OR, THE HOMOEROTICS OF ORIENTAUSM' Joseph A. Boone Why the Orient seems still to suggest not only fecundity but sexual promise (and threat) ... is not the province of my analysis here, alas, despite its frequently noted appearance. Edward...