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Folklor/Edebiyat, vol.26, pp.361-376, 2020 (Scopus, TRDizin)
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.