Meta-Orientalist Critique in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”

In “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade,” Edgar Allan Poe presents his criticism of the Orientalist discourse of his time, explaining ultimately the conditions that empowered and sustained this discourse for a long time. This authorial standpoint is traced and reconstructed in the process o...

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