Abstract
In their attempts at representing Constantine P. Cavafy's Alexandria, David Hockney's Cavafy Etchings offer more than a neocolonial authorization of the poet's Mediterranean Orient: they subvert generic Western depictions of their locale in order to create a male-positive imaginative geography; an unique version of Edward Said's free-floating mythology of the that presents an affirmative, unconventional view of the homoerotics of Orientalism (Orientalism 53). This paper examines the political and aesthetic characteristics of the Orient in the Cavafy Etchings; three topics are explored: first, how Hockney's works exemplify Said's Orientalism; second, how these etchings subvert the conventions of British Orientalist art; and finally, how they exemplify a male-positive imaginative geography.
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