Janus’un İki Yüzü: Seksen Günde Devr-i Âlem Romanının Postkolonyal Eleştirisi
Janus Bifrons: Postcolonial Criticism of Around the World in Eighty Days

Summary/Abstract: Colonialism, dating back to the discovery of the American continent, appears as both economic and cultural domination. Cultural domination is realized by orientalist discourse that legitimates the Occident’s activities of civilization in colonies. The orientalist point of view, enclosing the Orient in a time behind the moment when the Occident live in a place far from himself, reaches the current era by repeating itself for hundreds of years; and this knowledge produced about the Orient is used as a fiction material in literary works. These literary works describe the Orient as bizarre and mysterious. At this point, just as postmodernism is the critique of modernism, the postcolonial approach involves the criticism of orientalism and colonial order. This study examined Jules Verne’s narrative of Around the World in Eighty Days in the framework of postcolonial theory as a critical theory. In this novel, the subjectobject, power-other, master-slave and masculine-feminine dialectics are fictionalized with an Orientalist point of view. When viewed from postcolonial theory, it can be seen that the Orient is represented as an object of desire in which the Occident can fulfill the subconsciously repressed feelings. No matter how far the East is, the world is round and the voyager will return to his starting point, the Occident. Therefore, the study emphasized that the Orient is the lower-self/Other of the Occident.

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