Archive for: Edward Said

Caroline Small on Habibi, Said, and Heart of Darkness

Said was putting forth defenses of books like Heart of Darkness specifically on the grounds that Conrad was self-aware.

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Can the Subaltern Draw?: The Spectre of Orientalism in Craig Thompson’s Habibi

Habibi is a tragically familiar Orientalist tale that a reader can find in books by Kipling or many a French painter.

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