American orientalism: A critical reading through Edgar Allan Poe

To date, The Arabian Nights still create frames of reference outside its fictive core. article critically examined the adaptations and appropriation classic by Edgar Allan Poe how he invested his interest in Orient to advance career as a writer. More specifically, aim was study links between European Orientalism new version constructed United States. Various modes reading approaches were used interpret primary texts. postcolonial theories provided theoretical framework for study, deconstructive approach applied certain contexts deconstruct dismantle stereotyping mythologizing Orient. contributed growing scholarship on American oriental discourse offering counter perspective. Poe’s poems short stories all perpetuate negative representations. His obsession with is not reflected aesthetic appreciation but it rather that distorts never restores. only lately Arab critics literature more specifically surfaced through translations works into Arabic. Through stereotypical duplication world realism, fake has become there reality.