With the Whip into the Dirty Orient: The Depiction of the Orient in Oskar Mann’s Travel Letters

Remzi AVCI

Makale detayları

With the Whip into the Dirty Orient: The Depiction of the Orient in Oskar Mann’s Travel Letters

Yazarlar:

Remzi AVCI

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 46, pp.101-119

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847807

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890

Özet:

 

The present article deals with the travel letters of the German orientalist Oskar Mann (1867-1917).  With  financial  support  from  the  Royal  Prussian  Academy  of  Sciences,  Mann  made  two  expeditions  to  the  Ottoman  Empire  and  Iran  between  1901  and  1906 to research the Iranian languages and dialects. Travel letters and travel diaries are texts with relatively subjective value judgments, in which people and cultures are often described using ethnocentric stereotypes, because a real journey represents a cultural encounter and confrontation with the other that offers unique and invaluable information about the new world. The description of a foreign culture cannot be separated from the subjective value judgments of a traveller. This means the foreign world in which the traveller moves is represented by the subject who experiences it. According to Mann, the Orientals are people from a place that has surrendered to the West. He separates the Orient from the Occident with precise and sharp lines and divides them Eurocentrically into two separate categories. During his travels, Mann produced and imparted knowledge about the foreign cultures on the one hand, and on the other hand  he  spread  and  reinforced  images  and  prejudices  as  well  as  stereotypes  that  led  to  the  ontological  differentiation  between Orient and Occident. This essay tries to show that he perceived the Orient with hegemonic thought patterns and that his foreign imagination remained deeply rooted in the classic European orientalist discourse of the 19th century, and as a consequence the Orient was devalued. This study discusses the stereotypes, images and pattern of ideas that he used to represent the population of the foreign country where he travelled.

Makale detayları

With the Whip into the Dirty Orient: The Depiction of the Orient in Oskar Mann’s Travel Letters

Yazarlar: Remzi AVCI

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 46, pp.101-119

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2021

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000847807

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2619-9890

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Remzi AVCI

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 46, pp.101-119

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847807

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890