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Writers on (Belly) Dance

French writer Colette Willey who has yet to appear here
 but is an inspiration.

For an updated explanation of Writers on Dance,
please see the post here: 

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
from She Came to Stay
Xavier and Francoise watch the dancer in the Moorish cafe 
During war, where should the artist's loyalty fall?
Francoise suppresses a scream

GUSTAV FLAUBERT
On Landscapes with Slaves
Research in Egypt
Flaubert Describes a Wedding Procession
Flaubert Describes the Dancer: Hassan El-Belbeissi
Flaubert Meets Kuchuk Hanem
Flaubert on a Dance Called "The Bee"

and Stavros Stavrous Karayanni's "Dismissal Veiling Desire": a critic compares Flaubert's view with his American contemporary William C. Curtis

SONALLAH IBRAHIM
A man is forced to dance in an mysterious interview/interrogation in an unnamed country 

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Lorca on the famous dancer "La Argentina"

HERTA MULLER
Herta Muller "Orientalish" Introduction
Leo dances with Trudi Pelikian in the concentration camp in "The Hunger Angel"
You go mute and think what you have to think, even if you don't want to.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Nabokov and the Shah's Dancer

EDWARD SAID
Said on Tahia Carioca

LYTTON STRACHEY
Strachey portrays a dancer in the Sudan in "The End of General Gordon"

JEAN SAID MAKDISI
Makdisi Said on Gypsies in her memoir


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