Representation of the Orient: A Postcolonial Perspective on Robert Greene's Selimus
Amidst a variety of cultural cum representational notions of individual or group identity, postcolonial studies attempt not only to explore and unfold how Eurocentric logos builds social realities but employs ways also to deconstruct the stereotypes. It provides theorists and critics with analytical methods to see how a fictional work supports or subverts a common paradigm based on Eurocentrism. The aim of this paper is to analyze Robert Greene's play Selimus and Western logos rules oriental discourse and how the Orient is (mis)represented. The study contends that the play under-study follows the traditional literary chain of ousting the Orient from the center either by making it suppressed or a satanic evil. In Selimus, for instance, the Turks, like other oriental races such as the Arabs, the Moors, the Persians and so on, are represented in the early modern writings as the "grand evil" whose infidelity is a threat to the Christian world.
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Selimus, Orientalism, Oriental Discourse, Ottoman Turks, Occident/Orient Binary
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(1) Muhammad Imran
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Havelian KP, Pakistan.
(2) Nazakat
Lecturer, Department of English, Hazara University Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Adil Khan
Lecturer, Department of Pakistan Studies, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Imran, M., Nazakat., & Khan, A. (2019). Representation of the Orient: A Postcolonial Perspective on Robert Greene's Selimus. Global Political Review, IV(IV), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-IV).13
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TURABIAN : Imran, Muhammad, Nazakat, and Adil Khan. "Representation of the Orient: A Postcolonial Perspective on Robert Greene's Selimus." Global Political Review IV, no. IV (2019): 114-123. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-IV).13