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- December 20, 2011
- Columns, Dyspeptic Ouroboros, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 84 comments
DWYCK: Open Sesame
Parts of the comics intelligentsia seem to be developing an unhealthy obsession with ideological readings of comics.
Archive for: Orientalism
- November 16, 2011
- Columns, Slow-Rolling Orientalism, Top Featured
- 23 comments
A Conversation about Habibi’s Orientalism with Craig Thompson
“I’m examining American guilt and I’m examining male guilt.”
- October 12, 2011
- Blog, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 75 comments
A Brief Conversation with Corey Creekmur on Habibi
Thompson’s risky gambit was to create a consciously Orientalist work in a post 9/11 context.
- October 11, 2011
- Blog, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 9 comments
Eastern Trip
The booklet is self-consciously tongue-in-cheek in its anthropological pretentions, but that doesn’t make the pretensions any less pretentious or any less anthropological.
- October 11, 2011
- Blog, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 58 comments
A Comment on the Subaltern’s Progress through Habibi
The resultant comic is one that will excite every Western prejudice imaginable; not only of a depraved society but one of helpless, abused Arabian women begging to be saved from their bestial male counterparts.
- October 6, 2011
- Blog, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 34 comments
Just a Thing In Our Dream
Habin al Raschid giving up his dream is a dream itself, and the dreamer doesn’t live anywhere near Baghdad.
- October 4, 2011
- Columns, Slow-Rolling Orientalism
- 133 comments
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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Doing Manga Wrong
by Adam Stephanides
So why do I fear the possibility of Drawn & Quarterly licensing one of my favorite manga? Because of how they publish their manga.
