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“Self-Conscious Orientalism ”: Graphic Representations in Craig Thompson’s Habibi. Habiba Toorawa. Time, Space, and Race. Wanatolia is portrayed as simultaneously “savage” and “modern,” reinforcing fetishistic representations of the Middle East. Coded Imagery.
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“Self-Conscious Orientalism”: Graphic Representations in Craig Thompson’s Habibi Habiba Toorawa
Time, Space, and Race Wanatolia is portrayed as simultaneously “savage” and “modern,” reinforcing fetishistic representations of the Middle East.
Coded Imagery The Slave Market by Jean-Leon Gerome (1866)
“Habibiis a haunted exercise in exoticization that traffics in images that, on some level, it cannot help but disapprove—but that Thompson the artist cannot help but love.”-NadimDamluji