Most figurines of black women reflect either servitude or exoticism.
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The West has long found comfort in exoticism, which exonerates differences.
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It's unchecked white exoticism/orientalism run amok w a huge budget.
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It isn't an exploitative exoticism solely relating to the gender and sexuality presented by her subjects, but more of a futuristic exoticism, where her images seem to describe a cultural moment that is yet to come.
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A dose of local exoticism is the best they can hope for.
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Even the Moon's normal regolith rock is treasured simply for its interplanetary exoticism.
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"Otherwise, the result is always a kind of condescending exoticism, even if sympathetic."
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What might be taken as a homage to Brazilian exoticism is the opposite.
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A specific flavor of exoticism is Orientalism, an idea famously conceptualized by Edward Said.
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Half of its appeal is its simple Aussie exoticism — there's talk of kookaburras, jackeroos.
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Ray's most overtly ethnographic work, the movie flirts with a sort of simpering exoticism.
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In truth, it's not exactly a courageous move to trade explicit racism for cliched exoticism.
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James is rightly reluctant to offer a "grand philosophical scheme" or "factitious hypothesis" of exoticism.
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Dramaturgy is, at best, threadbare; old-fashioned exoticism and sexism are par for the course.
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If overt eroticism tended to be downplayed in Mexican painting, exoticism was a selling point.
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But Mr. McDermott is not really interested in teasing out any kinky implications of exoticism.
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The exoticism is not the kind suggested by a word that has been so frequently prostituted.
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Vreeland was furious at the makeover, wanting to shoot the natural exoticism she saw over lunch.
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"When you stop talking about exoticism, that's when we become part of the lexicon," she explains.
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For those less taken with this staging (I'm one of them), the exoticism goes too far.
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Robert Bechtle's photorealist pictures of suburban California resist exoticism as much as Delacroix's paintings of Algerian harems.
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We fixate on the exoticism—the imaginary personalities, the social isolation, the inevitable cleanup—because it's fun.
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The flower itself, with its otherworldly exoticism, made it a favorite with mystery and science-fiction writers.
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Its chants, tangy harmonies and hints of Cecil B. DeMille-style bombast conjure a realm of exoticism.
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It, too, is rich in its details, though the conceit here is classical antiquity rather than exoticism.
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She conveys the exoticism of a temporary new home and the eroticism of a temporary new attachment.
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Of course, one irony of this is that the fascination rests partly on scarcity value and exoticism.
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"There's an element of exoticism -- he is a Mandarin Chinese speaker, yet looks like a foreigner," said Leibold.
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And tiki's determined "exoticism," with its cultural appropriations and discomfiting evocation of otherness, reasonably put some drinkers off.
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Performed in front of a largely white audience on Sunday afternoon, this was still a brand of exoticism.
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Experimental filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán talks to Hyperallergic about challenging the standard modes of exoticism, ethnography, and anthropology.
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All of the films contain elements of exoticism: Submissive women are seduced; a man eats a live octopus.
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But the settlers' ensuing actions were nothing short of horrifying, and cheerful depictions of slavery and exoticism are jarring.
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Nugent's sketches play with exoticism and queerness, depicting nude bodies engaging in camp poses and same-sex sex acts.
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"There's something about the exoticism of the culture and the acute attention to detail that I love," he said.
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Thirteen years since the cheerleaders' last visit to the South in 2005, some of their exoticism has worn off.
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I cringed at the notes of exoticism in the whole sequence, but there were also many things I loved.
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Even though it quickly achieved mainstream popularity in the west, MSG always had an aura of exoticism around it.
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O'Neill was drawn to exoticism even as he empathized with marginalization, and his dramaturgy is shot through with contradictions.
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Neither does Condé bathe food in the romantic light that renders it a clichéd symbol of nostalgia or exoticism.
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His vision could do away with the problematic exoticism and "white savior" complex associated with Iron Fist in the past.
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Combining exoticism with economy, foreign retirement meccas are drawing ever more Americans south — and west and east — of the border.
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The mystery and the exoticism, the threat and the danger have ultimately gathered into a potent presence and cogent control.
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Perhaps the exoticism of Bellamy, who was half-Chinese, stemmed from his oblique manner of presenting his very sensitive nature.
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But despite the device's exoticism, coding for the RealTouch wasn't all that different from working with normal video editing software.
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This mix of exoticism, predictability and rarity leads some people to devote their lives to seeing as many eclipses as possible.
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A Frenchman who had been working in Japan, Wenger saw his exoticism held against him in his early days with Arsenal.
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Cummins set the protagonist Lidia's story in a fantasy version of Mexico meant to satisfy the gringo market for Brown exoticism.
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Start with that incomparable name: Timbuktu, a three-syllable chime that forms a virtual do-re-mi of hiddenness and exoticism.
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Halsey provides a sexy naivety, Phoebe Ryan exudes a tender innocence, Daya fires off a vicious helplessness, XYLO unleashes a mesmerizing exoticism.
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The Revolutionary poet Philip Freneau was one of the earliest to approach these sacred lands with a mix of exoticism and foreboding.
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With this series, the same kind of energy has been replaced with a decorative abundance and a kind of early Modernist exoticism.
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At Arquetopia, artists are pushed to ask tough ethical questions about the nature of hybridity, exoticism, and their own ways of seeing.
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"The Golden Cockerel"—new to the company this season—is also a throwback, to the fanciful storybook exoticism of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Still, some thematic structuring would have been a help, even at the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of tropical exoticism, revolutionary fervor, etc.
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Part of this has to do with the charming exoticism of her old-time world with its winking artifice and cinematic allusions.
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This is also true of video games, which thrive on mystery, discovery and exoticism—concepts frequently appear in stories of Ancient Egyptian civilization.
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And I'll admit it: at first I thought ABBA was trite bubblegum pop with a hint of exoticism because of their Swedish heritage.
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Outside Cuba, her work's perceived exoticism drew fascinated attention, but was also automatically slotted into a "Latin American" category that limited its reach.
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With its arrival in Europe from Asia in the 21992th century, it carried the scent not of glue or flour but of exoticism.
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Speaking of them, at some other point, I remember asking him if he were ever fatigued by the inexhaustible exoticism of his subjects.
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One of the candidates, if verified, would enter the textbooks as a completely novel quantum phenomenon, with an exoticism that appeals to many theorists.
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Given this aim, the emphasis falls, almost unavoidably, on the exotic, and for the nonprofessional audience exoticism is a big part of the appeal.
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Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising continues at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University (1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida) through April 1.
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With its raciness and its exoticism of period and place, it's gained a cult following in the United States on PBS stations and AcornTV.
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There is a strange sense of exoticism you can't help but feel when looking at Maggie West's nude images in her latest photo book 23.
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The glamour, exoticism and showmanship that makes seeing them live so exciting, so incredible, is tinged with the unshakeable feeling that it's all an act.
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The opening stories of "At the End of the Century" introduce Jhabvala's remarkable economy of expression, devoid of sandalwood-scented, curry-flavored, bangle-clanging exoticism.
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We may covet the stones for personal adornment and status flashing; we may imbue them with romance, exoticism, the titillation of the Hollywood jewel heist.
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But M.I.A.'s legacy as someone who saw that international music could be appreciated in its contemporary, danceable forms rather than as commodified exoticism still stands.
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This Europe has often looked down on the Poles, the Hungarians and the Czechs, let alone the Ukrainians or Estonians, for their supposed exoticism and backwardness.
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The story's exoticism — a xenophobic view of other cultures, or people from those cultures, as being somehow strange, unfathomable, or alien — is entrenched in that framing.
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This ballet classic, which retains traces of Marius Petipa's choreography, trades in clichéd 19th-century exoticism, but is still a winning showcase of this company's talent.
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This ballet classic, which retains traces of Marius Petipa's choreography, trades in clichéd 19th-century exoticism but is still a winning showcase of Ballet Theater's talent.
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Shot in 16mm, the film's soft contours and warm colors exude the heat and exoticism of the tropics; the viewer prepares for a journey of enchantment.
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Arquetopia, which has locations in Puebla, Oaxaca, and, soon, the Peruvian city of Cusco, encourages resident artists to ask tough questions about colonialism, exoticism, and ethics.
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It is also unsettling, in a series that has had issues around race and exoticism, to send off an army of nonwhite characters as zombie fodder.
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Like the others in the series, this one largely takes place in the not-too-distant past, which lends a little atmospheric exoticism to the tale.
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There is an exoticism in the technique of peppering foreign words into English texts, then promptly translating them — a repetition much like breaking the fourth wall.
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The delicacy of the sculpture, mix of materials, combined with the overtly baroque exoticism of the animal are characteristic of the exuberance of Du Paquier wares.
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It wasn't so long ago that cannibals were solely a fixture of exploitation cinema, their taste for homo-sapien steaks a marker of exoticism and unrefined savagery.
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"I want to show the lives of communities far from the expectations of exoticism, show the fantastic aspects of the everyday life of my subjects," he said.
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The most obvious answer to that comes in the form of an exoticism that'll see us caked in mud, braving the elements, and gamboling backwards through civilization.
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Other journalists have tried to avoid the exoticism trap by focusing on the normalcy of white supremacists, running profiles that focus on the white-nationalist-next-door.
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"Gabo" was not only a tremendous writer; he was an expert showman who once worked in advertising and cannily played up his Caribbean exoticism for foreign audiences.
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While offering a contemporary setting—most cafeteria-style Filipino restaurants are devoid of trendy ambiance—Ponseca aids in the purging of shame and exoticism around foreign foods.
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I will also note that this festival's main slate of 30 features is hardly an exercise in exoticism, but rather an idealistic, cosmopolitan representation of the mainstream.
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That air also hangs, warmly spiced, in the Conservatory, with a profuse display of the natural exoticism of the islands that goes well beyond the painter's depiction.
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The four-leaf-cloverlike design came onto the scene in 1968 as the accents on a yellow-gold sautoir, the detail's amuletlike shape evoking a modern exoticism.
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Burtynsky's intricately patterned and textured landscapes possess a crop-formation exoticism; yet it turns out that we humans are the architects of this unnerving and seemingly alien terrain.
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Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising is a small installation drawn from The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Library collection and curated by Nicolae Harsanyi, associate librarian.
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Despite centuries of efforts to play up its exoticism, which Brazilians often encouraged, Brazil was always, for better and for worse, fully a part of the Western world.
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That's when I realized that this gift from Tajikistan has been operating more as a culinary homage to exoticism in general, rather than as a Tajik tea house.
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The original "Aladdin" tale, after all, was most likely translated from a Syrian oral tradition relayed by an 18th-century French writer, who drenched his version in exoticism.
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These elite clubs exist in real life, minus the occult nicknames, and their self-mythologizing exoticism is profoundly satisfying to their members and profoundly irritating to everyone else.
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Whatever original sacred purpose they had was distorted through myth, the name "Fiji" referencing the Fiji islands in the South Pacific giving an air of exoticism without any substance.
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Without any surplus exoticism, Mr Atxaga records the strangeness, physical and social, of his desert berth: this primeval landscape where bare trapezoid mountains have "nothing to do with us".
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Composers, especially in France, had regularly utilized exoticism in their works (Saint-Saëns and Bizet spring to mind) but it remained a decorative detail, a picture postcard, a costume.
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The producers flattened out some nuances, relied on cultural exoticism and loaded episodes with gratuitous sex and rape scenes — some of which they seemed unaware even were rape scenes.
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And the exoticism of the setting, the heartiness of the food, the warmth of our hosts, the beauty of the forest and the exhilarating workouts compensated for the communication difficulties.
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The hieroglyphs, the ibises, the replica of King Tutankhamen's throne standing on leonine paws, with winged snakes for arms: All this is not so much exoticism as nostalgia and tribute.
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The striking exoticism in these landscapes feel like a child's imagining of what a jungle may be like, if said child had extraordinary painting talent and an incredible artistic vision.
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"When I was a young girl, a weekend in Turin was the height of exoticism," she said, referring to the Piedmont capital, about 40 miles from where she was born.
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As a brand strategy, Victoria's Secret has long sold fashion by dressing it in a particular flavor of fantasy in which exoticism and approachability are forced to sit side-by-side.
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That won't exactly redeem the show's reputation for lazy exoticism — widely re-litigated after the Battle of Winterfell — but remember these are the guys who kill people for fun at weddings.
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The relative exoticism of the milieu and all the healthy young people who soon fill the ensemble generate more enthusiasm for the viewer, as does the arresting black-and-white imagery.
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The ingredients here make a tasty brew, with elements of corporate malfeasance, Cold War conspiracy theory, the allure of ridiculous high-tech neuroscience, space travel, and a whiff of extraterrestrial exoticism.
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There is a dialogue that needs to be had about racial exoticism as a beauty technique — one that Grande's glam team probably needs to be part of — but blackface it is not.
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I was a white teenager who wanted to be beautiful and subversive, without understanding anything, like that white people historically impose a narrative of exoticism and subversion on black and brown bodies.
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At the time, I was still too young for raves, but was drawn to the exoticism of bleep-blop techno, which sounded like it came from worlds away from my provincial area.
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My cinematic practice started with a series of films about the notion of exoticism, with a very critical look toward anthropology's iconography, which I found were rooted in colonial processes and narratives.
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But it also fostered a kind of exoticism: it was tempting to think of Gucci Mane primarily as an avatar of East Atlanta mayhem, rather than as an entertainer and a craftsman.
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"As the subtitle of the installation mentions, exoticism is the show's main concern, and we approached the content on view as reflecting Western cultural constructions of indigenous people," Harsanyi told me over email.
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Even now, nearly a century after onion rings were invented, and long after they've been enshrined as the prototypical second side for hamburger dining, onion rings still retain this sense of precarious exoticism.
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Exoticism is a hallmark of WantedDesign: Go to its Manhattan branch at the Terminal Stores building May 13 if you want to see fresh design ideas from Poland, Argentina, the Netherlands and Tunisia.
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With Sherald's romantic figures at the center, About Face explored portraiture as an effective tool for envisioning a more inclusive and authentic America, one created by diverse authors and devoid of tokenism and exoticism.
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Katie Couric and Mike Tirico proved nimble announcers, with less of the weird exoticism that sometimes overtook the ceremonies hosted by Matt Lauer (fired from NBC in a sexual harassment scandal) and Meredith Vieira.
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Mr. Tseden is known for films that strive to depict the reality of modern life for Tibetans and cut through the exoticism and mysticism of many portrayals of the region in China and abroad.
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"The ultimate assimilation crossover food" is what the food writer and radio host Arthur Schwartz called it when I interviewed him about it, a taste of illicit exoticism, unkosher and delicious in the extreme.
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"I'm well aware of the fact that Italians are intrigued because we're black — there's a little bit of exoticism with that, so you have to filter like when you date anywhere else," she said.
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Her still-evolving, evening-length work devoted to Josephine Baker, a collaboration with the composer Tyshawn Sorey, is both a paean to a pioneering black performer and a haunting meditation on exoticism, objectification and mourning.
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With films like Mr. Tseden's "Tharlo" (2015) and Sonthar Gyal's "River" (2015), the "new Tibetan wave" of directors has presented audiences with an unvarnished view of life in modern Tibet, stripped of fantasy and exoticism.
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The installation sprawled across three floors, taking over the Astor Court and the Chinese galleries and juxtaposing their contents—devotional sculpture, masterpieces of calligraphy, Qing ceramics—with several centuries of couture inspired by Eastern exoticism.
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Less an exercise in outsider exoticism than a monument to national pride, "Shiraz" invents an imaginary back story for the 17th-century empress whose death inspired her husband to commission the world's most celebrated mausoleum.
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Western religions certainly have their share of practitioners in Japan, but those faiths still have an air of exoticism about them: Vaguely familiar, yet foreign enough to spice up a work with a dash of mystery.
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A few hundred years later, during the 19th century, a time of scientific discovery and adventurous expeditions, allegorical readings of men breastfeeding gave way to more detailed accounts, albeit ones tinged with an unmistakable colonial exoticism.
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Set among the Wayuu of northern Colombia (an Indigenous population whose language and customs survived the Spanish conquest and the rise of the modern nation-state), it also resists the temptations of exoticism and hazy magic realism.
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It's a lighthearted late '60s action comedy, full of bumbling pratfalls and failed seductions all scored to the kind of vaguely Chinese-sounding music common in that era's spy films, meant to evoke the exoticism of international espionage.
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Sometimes these spots are shot through a filter of exoticism, with the eye of an artist from elsewhere who is fascinated, appalled and intoxicated by the amber waves of grain and the sparkling sands of our diamond deserts.
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But at Loewe, Jonathan Anderson transformed the concrete interior of the Unesco headquarters into a series of pitch-black steamy caverns to create a "controlled environment," the better to spotlight the exoticism of 60 different sorts of orchids.
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"The elephant might have been inspired by the live one gifted to Anna Ivanovna by Persian emissaries in 1736; in any case, it is a symbol of exuberance and exoticism which would have been much appreciated," Ripert said.
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What interested Bissière in the primitive side of art was not the exoticism of the art from distant lands and the radical formal solutions they offered Modern artists, but rather the stoic sincerity of the anonymous Romanesque fresco painter.
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He speaks fluently about developing-world economic strategies, says he has never been the subject of racial discrimination in a part of France where there are few immigrants and shrewdly recognizes the exoticism of his appeal to the voters.
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Nineteenth-century groups of intellectuals in both Europe and America, like the German Romantics and the American Transcendentalists (who tended to fetishize "exoticism" and Eastern "mysticism," in contrast to decrepit European "civilization"), developed an interest in all things Indian.
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White South Africans and foreigners, attracted to its location in central Cape Town — an urban lifestyle tinged with exoticism, brightly colored Cape Dutch houses, dramatic views of Table Mountain and comparatively cheaper real estate — have recently been buying up property.
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The new film has, for the most part, managed to shirk much of its inspiration's exoticism and cultural inaccuracies, but despite Ritchie's clear efforts to deliver a more respectful version of Aladdin, it may not be enough to satisfy many of its detractors.
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For young Europeans Vietnam has become an essential stop on the circuit of backpacking around Asia, offering pleasant weather, cheap accommodation, great food and just enough exoticism to give bragging rights at university and just enough tourist infrastructure to make travelling reasonably comfortable.
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But easy as it now is to ding Dubuffet for exoticism, it's worth remembering how committed the Frenchman was to dismantling hierarchies of artistic merit — and how his gaze on Arab societies formed part of a larger contestation of European pre-eminence.
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It ended with Mr. Fulmer conducting Dai Fujikura's "Ice," a rapturous, intricately orchestrated chamber orchestra piece that, as the conductor said in a spoken introduction, explores unorthodox sounds, including ruffling seashells, and exoticism, reflective of Ligeti's work, but in a fresh, personal way.
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Ditto Veronica Etro's namesake family brand, where tasseled caftans and paisleys met urban abstracts and on-the-road crop tops and cargo trousers (and fluorescent nylon anoraks) for an entirely un-neurotic, and appealing, mash-up of heritage exoticism and the everyday.
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So if "tropical house" helps listeners imagine beaches and palm trees he has no incentive to object—he has perfected a kind of soft-focus exoticism, promising to take listeners far away while providing tantalizingly few details about where they are going.
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During the Belle Époque, with an infectious zeal for art hinged on exoticism, romanticism, and nostalgia, Mucha churned out everything from posters, decorative panels, and fabulous fabric designs — such as the velvet "Woman with Daisy" (1900), to calendars, table settings, menu cards, and wine labels.
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Giustinia is a poet and a critic, an elegant woman who became friends with Shay when Shay translated some of her essays for an American magazine, and they discovered that they shared a passion for Victor Segalen's eccentric early-twentieth-century monograph on exoticism.
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Leaf through any fashion history book, and the Ballets Russes' mark is apparent: After 219, when the corps debuted in Paris, it was out with the pastels and the sinuous Art Nouveau lines of the Edwardian era, and in with bold color and exoticism.
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To trace this thread to the present and this country, there is first Hopper, where one finds a deracinated private view where only the light and the lassitude remains, then California's postwar painters, for a twinning of exoticism and banality that harkens back to the Delacroix work.
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An eye-opening scene sees arranged marriage defended via the example of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. (A religious faction in Tanna considers Prince Philip a divinity.) Despite its best efforts, "Tanna" drifts into a mode of exoticism that renders it an ultimately frustrating experience.
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"In the figure of the Queen of Sheba, the beckoning and voluptuous Orient becomes embodied, its imaginative territory in classical sources encompassed meridian and outlandish exoticism, sensuality, wonder and luxuries," argues Marina Warner in From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.
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Georges Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" (1863) is a classic example of nineteenth-century French exoticism: it paints a rosy picture of humble pearl fishers in the faraway land of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) with a perfumed, Gallic-sounding score whose sweeping melodies delight the ear.
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Wolfsonian-FIU When: Hours adjusted to Monday–Sunday: 10am–6pm Where: 1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach Both the Wolfsonian's ongoing exhibitions (like Americans All: Race Relations in Depression-Era Murals) and current ones (like Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising) are historical, informative, and worth seeing.
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But the author might have chosen, for instance, out of countless examples, David Porter's essay, "A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place: Hogarth and the Gendering of Exoticism in the Eighteenth Century Interior," a recommended text for art history courses at British colleges, such as the Open University.
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There are precious manuscripts, looted from the royal palaces of Java as war booty; tourist trinkets made to satisfy Orientalist fascination with Hindu-Buddhist artifacts; and plenty of Javanese theatrical objects and instruments, many of which belonged to incomplete sets because they were acquired by Raffles on account of their exoticism.
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Too often, Native Americans hear the words "I took a DNA test and …" Too often, our heritage and racial identity has been co-opted by others for monetary gain, to claim some exoticism in their identity, or simply because someone wanted an excuse to wear a really pretty Halloween costume.
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Also of particular note are Rachel Frank's wondrous display that successfully walks the line between colonial nostalgia and commercial exoticism, and the eye-catching The Pursuit of "It" show curated by Nicole Grammatico and Christina Papanicolaou, which features work by artists Robin F. Williams, Signe Pierce, Hein Koh, and Hiba Schahbaz.
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"I have not done research on the engagement of the Bronx Museum with Cuban exiled artists in particular, but I don't think that it is much different from the rest of US institutions, which usually prefer the exoticism of the local artists to the experience of those living abroad," Fuentes told Hyperallergic.
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Today, a flavor of this hostile, alienating exoticism remains, and the obvious truth that North Koreans are people like anyone else gets lost, meaning that the idea of huge numbers of them dying in a blaze of "fire and fury" is seen more in terms of how it might affect people outside North Korea.
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Originally part of the 2016 Import Export show presented by Temnikova & Kasela, Viir's Hans_55 series comments on the exoticism of cultural difference, and how work like Silvester's may have encouraged a level of exhibitionism among African people as a source of tourist-based income (a topic dealt with thoughtfully in the article "Tourists Taking Pictures" by Bliss Broyard).
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And while some efforts have resulted in groundbreaking collaborative artistry, some of it veers into cultural tourism as artists rely on superficial signposting (the guns, slang, and booze that permeate Asian hip-hop) to claim exoticism (the fake Chinese, hair chopsticks, and ninjas in Black hip-hop) or coolness at the expense of the actual people.
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Ringgold's "American People Series #220: Die" (22020), depicting a bloody interracial melee, offers a trenchant riposte to the exoticism and cultural appropriations of Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), while Thomas's "Fiery Sunset" (1973), a radiant, ultramarine-on-scarlet abstraction reveling in its freedom of brushwork and color, owns the wall adjacent to Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911).
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Sandwich historians suggest that it was the creation of Herbie's Restaurant in Loch Sheldrake in the 1950s, and it soon became a favorite of the summertime borscht-belt crowd — after-show entertainers and Jewish bungalow kids with observant parents lining up alongside one another for this taste of illicit exoticism, unkosher and delicious in the extreme.
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Ash Adams, who has lived in Alaska for the better part of a decade, has a brilliant series of images titled Call Her Alaska that looks at her home state with scenes that belie its reputation of exoticism and seeks to familiarize the viewer with its unique challenges, especially as it is one of the most significant bellwethers for climate change that we have.
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French regional cuisine first transcended borders during World War II, when soldiers would share recipes and snacks from home with one another, but it wasn't until French millennials started becoming interested in "authentic" food that the exoticism of not just pho, bo bun, and bagels (yes, really), but regional French dishes that had been ignored for years became a tantalizing option for diners with adventurous palates.
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" Joan Nathan says the exoticism of Chinese food added to its appeal, but also believes the Jewish love of Chinese food may be attributable to the outsider status of both communities in a largely white, Christian America: "Maybe it was the familiar feeling of otherness; in other words, they were not as comfortable as the 'Americans' were, and so they become comfortable with each other.
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Rin Chupeco shifts "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" to the Philippines, gives it a trans narrator and turns the exoticism of Poe's story inside out, while Caleb Roehrig's take on "The Pit and the Pendulum" makes the Inquisition into a modern-day serial killer called the Judge, in a story so effectively frightening that I found myself trying to physically escape my reading experience.
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The use of the indigenous headdress is not naïve; it is present in the piece as a primary symbol to evoke the importance of the people who underwent mass murders; it is not used as a grotesque costume; it is not intended as a tool to play on blasphemous exoticism, nor is it intended to legitimize a cause that I feel solidarity towards, but which is not historically mine.
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While reviewing these materials I noticed that some of them were advertising various products of tobacco manufacturers from Germany, the country where Eric Simon worked before coming to the US. The pervasive presence of Native Americans in these images prompted me to go through the general collection of the library looking for similar instances in which natives, not only from the American continent, but also from other tobacco producing regions of the world, were employed by advertisers to convey the exoticism attached to the tobacco products.
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We are concerned, in this "natural history of exoticism," with Raden Saleh (1811-80), a Javanese painter who spent 20 years in Western Europe; the Frenchman Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), of Polynesian fame; Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), a Swiss-Russian writer who moved to Saharan North Africa; Victor Segalen (1878-1919), a writer from Brittany who for years lived and worked in China; the painter Walter Spies (1895-1942), who left Germany for Bali; and finally, Maya Deren (1917-61), the Russian-born American avant-garde filmmaker whose trips to Haiti defined her life and her work.
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