![]() In this study, 25 works written in Turkish novels from 1971 to 2021 were examined within the framework of the East-West dichotomy, has been considered to what is fictionalised as 'self' compared to what is 'other' and the female representations produced in a self-orientalist context have been addressed. Considering the structure of orientalism, which gets its strength from the sexual difference and being built from a foundation constructed by the masculine eye, it is seen that self-orientalist discourses cannot be considered separately from orientalist discourses related to East and Eastern women. ![]() ![]() Representations of women are leading these forms of representations. ![]() In this context, it can be said that some works in the Turkish novels were written with a self-orientalist attitude by repeating and diversifying the orientalist representations related the East, from the first examples to the present. Literary work, on the other hand, forms an important basis for the production of self-orientalist discourse. The orientalist discourse, which is encoded with a dialectic of the Western 'self'/Eastern 'other' by moving the Western masculine eye in the center, from time to time creates a self-orientalist attitude being reproduced by an Eastern with a Western eye.
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