Janus Bifrons: Postcolonial criticism of around the world in eighty days Janus'un İki Yüzü: Seksen Günde Devr-i Âlem Romaninin Postkolonyal Eleştirisi

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Doğanay G., Bayraktar B.

Folklor/Edebiyat, cilt.26, ss.361-376, 2020 (Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.22559/folklor.1018
  • Dergi Adı: Folklor/Edebiyat
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.361-376
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: postcolonial criticism, orientalism, feminist theory, discourse, novel
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Colonialism, dating back to the discovery of the American continent, appears as both economic and cultural domination. Cultural domination is realized by orientalist discourse that legitimates the Occident's activities of civilization in colonies. The orientalist point of view, enclosing the Orient in a time behind the moment when the Occident live in a place far from himself, reaches the current era by repeating itself for hundreds of years; and this knowledge produced about the Orient is used as a fiction material in literary works. These literary works describe the Orient as bizarre and mysterious. At this point, just as postmodernism is the critique of modernism, the postcolonial approach involves the criticism of orientalism and colonial order.