Anadolu Bil Meslek Yüksekokulu Dergisi

Yazarlar: Kemalettin YİĞİTER, Hande KOLAT, Gamze SORAL

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Anahtar Kelimeler:East,0rientalism,Edward Said

Özet: In this article a British novelist and short story writer living in 20th century, William Pickthall’s following his travels to East; Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and etc, to let the people in East to be known as themselves with goods and bads, that is objectively by the help of his works is examined. Pickthall, having illuminated the depth of Eastern world by his works, was unfortunately called for some time in his hometown as “A Loyal Enemy of England” that is a close friend of our enemies; was prone to introduce Easterners as friendly, loyal, hospitable and decent individuals. However, Pickthall was such a writer who had cracked the door of Oriental world open and laid the East barely. Furthermore, in the article it has been underlined that great author Edward Said’s evaluation of East in his work called Orientalism, had been accomplished previously by Pickthall being one of the English authors

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