Its the colonial encounter as played by an external individual. Ashif, our Arab prince, is childish but good-hearted. Raoul, our French-American guy, has a big penis (at least according to Ashif!) and is aggressive. the ways in which the orientalist subjects viewed and reacted to their colonizers). This isnвЂ™t to say, by the way, that a person can only properly write about their own countrypeople, but that OK: AN was stuffed to the brim with both orientalism and occidentalism (preferring that turn of language to вЂreverse orientalismвЂ™ which is really descriptive of another mindset entirely, i.e. The strongest impression I got of it was the bizarreness of the entire venture вЂ“ that is, of a Japanese author writing about a half-American, half-French boy and an Arab prince in вЂArabiaвЂ™, a country which appeared to resemble Dubai much more than any other, even considering the obvious inspiration of Saudi Arabia and its royal family. I got around to reading this English language edition a couple of nights ago, and, wellвЂ¦ it was kind of an odd read.

IвЂ™d paged through the Japanese release several times, only able to decipher bits and pieces of the narrative. Having somehow had the Japanese release of Our Kingdon: Arabian Nights end up in my hands about two years ago at Anime Boston 2009, when I saw an English language release sitting on a shelf this past April at Anime Boston 2011, I knew I had to buy it.

Nothing tastes better than BL and orientalism!

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