One of the key representations Serbia between two world wars in British and American travel accounts is one about a child. Set context Orientalism postcolonial tradition this representation usually interpreted as infantilization that reflects marginalization symbolic position Balkans outside mainstream politics economy. As academic discourse mostly occupied with orientalism postcolonialism, pap...

Based on his experiences during a journey through mainland Southeast Asia in 1923, Somerset Maugham wrote a book of colonial travel entitled The Gentleman in the Parlour. As the work of one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century, Maugham’s travelogue both expressed and helped to shape contemporary thinking about Southeast Asia and Western imperialism. Focusing especially on his re...

In this encyclopedic book entitled (Orientalism, Postmodernism, and Globalism), Brian Turner, the British Marxist philosopher, thinker, sociologist, discusses thoughts of prominent intellectuals modernity postmodernity, and, most famous orientalists in history Orientalism. Turner refutes their opinions regarding role religion societies, ability Islam to be a lever for modernization. After colla...

This paper provides a framework to highlight the entanglement of discovery and historiography based on example rock-relief figure Karabel (Turkey), pivotal monument recognize Hittites biblical past. I lay out common narrative re-discovery's story that resemble hagiography, put it into perspective with critiques from post-colonial studies. Due ongoing damage at Karabel, hypothesize one-sided rol...

In this paper, I attempt to develop what call an ‘Analytic, Fārābian’ conception of Orientalism. The motivation for is that it helps us with the task––identified by Wael B. Hallaq––of going beyond ‘rudimentary political slogans’ attached theory Orientalism and instead identifying Orientalism’s underlying ‘psycho-epistemic pathology’ (Hallaq 2018, 4). order do properly, according Hallaq, we need...

Orientalism still provides a rich literature to explore the representations of Orient from Western perspective as well manifest and latent power relations designating Orientalist imagery. Following Edward Said’s theorization Orientalism, this paper examines imagery, iconography, gaze sexual difference in Turkey’s cinema on trajectory films Il Bagno Turco aka Hamam, Zenne Dancer Zenne, Auf Der A...