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Non-Aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-Orientalism, and Queerness
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic
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Recently I found myself at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, standing in front of an orientalist image. Together with a colleague I was looking at The Slave Market by Jean-Léon Gérôme, painted in 1866, only one year after the official abolition of slavery in the US. The caption of the painting said the following:
A young woman has been stripped by a slave trader and presented to a group of fully clothed men for examination. A prospective buyer probes her teeth….
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 16, 2019
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Painting, Gender
Subjects
Slavery, Extinction, Queer Art & Theory, Orientalism, Postcolonial Theory