Word: orientalistes
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...sequins. She is emaciated—presumably by choice, not because (like a good many of the Africans she studies) she lacks food—and she is stumbling down this long, paisley-print carpet with a precarious glass of red wine.Lest I erroneously draw myself out of this Orientalist mis-en-scène, I should mention that I am presently ensconced in a Queen Anne chair, accompanied by a steady stream of gin and tonics, brought to me by a breathtaking member of D.C.’s Ethiopian community who I’ve shamelessly been flirting...
...seems hardest to defend the film from the last group of detractors: those who complain that it panders to the West in the hopes of repeating Lagaan's success abroad. The movie does come with a full load of Orientalist clich?s. There are far too many elephants, dancing girls, and cows walking about, and the British officer gets a suspicious amount of screen time, suggesting that this film was carefully calculated to do well with audiences in Britain and America. But for all its stereotypes and implausibilities, this is a movie worth defending: because if everyone attacks The Rising...
...Desert Love. Eerie, a contributor to 'Aqoul, a blog mostly about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...
...Forbes five--led by eldest son and former presidential candidate Steve and his brother Kip, who is vice chairman of the family's media empire, Forbes Inc.--have been unloading Dad's gems for years. In 1993 they sold $3 million worth of Orientalist paintings and drawings; in 1997, a toy-soldier collection for about $600,000; in 2002, some 60 Faberge objects for nearly $6 million. Other items have been sold as well, including the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's last speech and a trove of other presidential documents, a 727 jet named Capitalist Tool and real estate...
...Political correctness hit students like myself like a bolt of lightning, and the fear of being called Orientalist cast a dark shadow over our institutions,” he said of Said’s effect on his own education...