Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Türkiye
Tez Danışmanı: Cemile Günseli İşçi
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Desteklendiği Program: YÖK 100/2000 Programı
Özet:
Abstract
The
Call of the ‘Orient’ in James Morier’s Novels
This thesis
aims at studying the cultural representations of the Orient ‘other’ in
eighteenth century literary texts with a pen of
Englishman due to this fact that such representation lies at the center
of the discourse of Orientalism, the
Occident ‘Imperial’. It argues that a comprehensive understanding of the
representation of the Orient must be evaluated in some texts written by the
only same author; thus investigates different aspects of the interaction
between the author and the Orient. Persia and Turkey, out of many places of
interest, were at the core of consideration for scholars for some reasons.
James Justinian Morier due to his unique privilege situation for both being
born in Izmir(Turkey) and missioned in Persia as a diplomat has been noticed
and taken extraordinary attention from very beginning by many academicians,
orientalists and scholars. However, Morier has been famous for one of his work,
The Adventure of Hajji Baba in Ispahan, the present study is an attempt
to bring up two more of his novels concerning the Orient, Persia and Turkey
namely Zohrab the Hostage and Ayesha, the Maid of Kars. All these
three novels undertake the content of the study to survey the accuracy of the
images presented from the Islamic Orient. Along with Edward Said’s Orientalism,
another theoretical framework comes from Stuart Hall’s The West and the
rest: Discourse and Power. Hall focuses on representation not as reflective
but also formative, constitutive of our reality and the world. While said
believes that not only does text create knowledge but comes to constitute our
reality through its power of description; helps conjure reality. It is shown
that how a number of relatively resembling set of motifs and subject matter,
largely derived from Morier’s travel accounts, circulate in his three novels
while they are differently inflected and serve disparate thematic and
ideological purposes. This study discloses formerly unsaid aspects of Morier’s
representations. In his projection of the Islamic Orient, the stereotypical
discourse gives way to a diversity of commendable and degenerate sorts of
characters so that there is tough to recognize the negative images and to
distinguish the fact from the fiction. Finally, it shows how the oriental
motifs and topoi in the works of the writers before Morier detect their traits
and their most effective sound in his fiction which assume the representation
of the real Persia and Turkey.
Keywords:
Orientalism, Representation, Adventure novels, James Morier, Stuart Hall,
Edward Said.
Alireza Navid M,G. , 2021