Sexy Ambiguity and Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, and Representation in Seba al-Herz's The Others
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Sexual representations in Seba al-Herz’s Saudi Arabian novel The Others span various kinds of sexual identification and experience. Surface level readings of the novel find examples of lesbian identities and encounters, but a deeper, more nuanced examination of the novel unearths a complex set of queer desires, practices, sexual encounters, and relationships that do not fit neatly in to regulated sexual identity categories. Through literary analysis, I argue that through ambiguities in the novel’s construction and narration, and through the Narrator’s sexual experiences, The Others offers a kind of sexual expression that opens up possibilities of deterritorializing and re-territorializing sexual experience beyond static identity labels. INDEX WORDS: Sexuality, Assemblage, Lesbian, Same-gender desire, Narrative analysis SEXY AMBIGUITY AND CIRCULATING SEXUALITY: ASSEMBLAGE, DESIRE, AND REPRESENTATION IN SEBA AL-HERZ’S THE OTHERS
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