Changing My Mind About Victorientalism
Changing My Mind About Victorientalism
This website, then known as The Gatehouse, gained some notoriety in 2010, when we dedicated an issue of our webzine, the Gatehouse Gazette, to “Victorientalism”. I subsequently defended this choice in a blog post that now strikes me as insensitive and in some places wrong. My assumption — that it is safe to recreate stereotypes from colonial times because those stereotypes, and the power…