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PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2 30 Haziran 2025
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PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

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This study offers a critical reassessment of Edward Said’s Orientalism by examining William Shakespeare’s Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. It challenges Said’s assertion that early modern Western representations of the East uniformly served to construct the Orient as irrational, inferior, and uncultured in contrast to a rational and superior Occident. Instead, this study argues that such a binary does not adequately account for England’s pre-colonial encounter with the powerful Ottoman Empire. During this period, English portrayals of the East were marked more by anxiety, fascination, and perceived vulnerability than by imperial dominance. In Othello, the protagonist’s racial and cultural ambiguity reflects English fears of “turning Turk”—the conversion to Islam and betrayal of Christian identity. In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra embodies the destabilizing allure of the East, threatening Roman masculinity and imperial order. Antony’s symbolic “going native” and feminization express contemporary fears of cultural absorption. Moreover, Cleopatra subverts Orientalist stereotypes through her strategic manipulation of exoticism, overturning patriarchal hierarchies. By contextualizing both plays within early modern geopolitical tensions, this study argues for a more complex reading of Shakespeare’s representations of the East—one informed by ambivalence, awe, and political unease rather than simplistic notions of Western superiority.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat, Ortaçağ Edebiyatı

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

28 Haziran 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

14 Nisan 2025

Kabul Tarihi

20 Haziran 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Güven, F. (2025). PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 8(2), 863-872. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1675556
AMA
1.Güven F. PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. UDEKAD. 2025;8(2):863-872. doi:10.37999/udekad.1675556
Chicago
Güven, Fikret. 2025. “PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 (2): 863-72. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1675556.
EndNote
Güven F (01 Haziran 2025) PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 2 863–872.
IEEE
[1]F. Güven, “PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA”, UDEKAD, c. 8, sy 2, ss. 863–872, Haz. 2025, doi: 10.37999/udekad.1675556.
ISNAD
Güven, Fikret. “PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8/2 (01 Haziran 2025): 863-872. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1675556.
JAMA
1.Güven F. PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. UDEKAD. 2025;8:863–872.
MLA
Güven, Fikret. “PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 8, sy 2, Haziran 2025, ss. 863-72, doi:10.37999/udekad.1675556.
Vancouver
1.Fikret Güven. PRE-COLONIAL ANXIETIES: REASSESSING ORIENTALISM IN OTHELLO AND ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. UDEKAD. 01 Haziran 2025;8(2):863-72. doi:10.37999/udekad.1675556

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