Slow-Rolling Orientalism « The Hooded Utilitarian

December 29, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
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Eddie Campbell on Persepolis and Habibi

Satrapi, Thompson, drawing and writing.

December 28, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
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Bound to Blog: Wonder Woman #26

Wonder Woman, Habibi, ideology, and lines.

Supermelodrama

Melodrama in Craig Thompson’s Habibi — part of the ongoing roundtable on Orientalism.

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.

A Brief Conversation with Corey Creekmur on <i>Habibi</i>

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.

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.

A Comment on the Subaltern’s Progress through <i>Habibi</i>

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.