SavedAdd your journal

Journals / Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi / 2021 / Issue: 46

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

Mit der Peitsche in den dreckigen Orient:Die Darstellung des Orients in Oskar Manns Reisebriefen

Remzi Avcı(MARDİN ARTUKLU ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-8539-9203
Pages
—
Publication Date
2021-12-07
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

This study discusses the stereotypes, images and pattern of ideas that he used to represent the population of the foreign country where he travelled.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:The present article deals with the travel letters of the German orientalist Oskar Mann (1867-1917).
📊
Key Findings & Data: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.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:This study discusses the stereotypes, images and pattern of ideas that he used to represent the population of the foreign country where he travelled.
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Oskar Mann · Iran · Iranian ethnic groups

Abstract

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.

🔖

Cite This Article

Avcı, R. (2021). With the Whip into the Dirty Orient: The Depiction of the Orient in Oskar Mann’s Travel Letters. Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, Issue: 46. https://doi.org/10.26650/sdsl2021-988686

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (32)

  1. Avcı, R. (2020). Seyahat Notları ve Oryantalist Bilgi Üretimi: Eduard Sachau (1845-1930) Örneği. Diyalog Interkulturelle Zeitschrift Für Germanistik, 8(1), 29-47. google scholar
  2. Avcı, R. (2021). Oryantalist Oskar Mann’ın (1867-1917) Osmanlı Seyahati Mektuplarında Zazacanın Tasnifi. Nüsha, 21(52), 161-178. google scholar
  3. Bies, M.-Kosenina, A. (2014). Reisen und Wissen. Einleitung. Zeitschrift für Germanistik, 24 (1), 7-9. google scholar
  4. Brenner, P. J. (1990). Der Reisebericht in der deutschen Literatur: Ein Forschungsüberblick als Vorstudie zu einer Gattungsgeschichte. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. google scholar
  5. Edwards, J., & Graulund, R. (2011). Introduction: Reading Postcolonial Travel Writing. Justin (Hrgs.) Edwards/Rune Graulund. Postcolonial Travel Writing Critical Explorations. Chippenham and Eastbourne: CPI Antony Rowe. 1-17: 1-16. google scholar
  6. Fendri, M. (1996). Kulturmensch in »barbarischer« Frem-de. Deutsche Reisende im Tunesien des 19. Jahrhunderts. München: Iudicium. google scholar
  7. Funke, H. G. (1982). Studien zur Reiseutopie der Frühaufklarung: Fontenelles Histoire des Ajaoiens. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag. google scholar
  8. Gogiaschwili, E. (2008). Das Stereotyp der Georgierin in der Abendlandischen Reiseliteratur vom 17.-19. Jahrhundert, Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte, 59(2), 253-268. google scholar
  9. Hentsch, T. (2008). Hayali Doğu: Batı’nın Akdenizli Doğu’ya Politik Bakışı. İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık. google scholar
  10. Huff, D. Archeological Excavations and Studies, The Encyclop&dia Iranica, https://iranicaonline.org/articles/ germany-ii (letzter Zugriff: 01. 31. 2021). google scholar
  11. Hupfeld, T. (2007). Zur Wahrnehmung und Darstellung des Fremden in ausgewahlten französischen Reiseberichten des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.”Il les faut voir et visiter en leur pays”. Göttingen: Universitatsverlag Göttingen. google scholar
  12. Kabbani, R. (1986). Europe’s Myths of Orient. Hampshire-London: The Mcmillian Press. google scholar
  13. Kolivand, M. (2014). Persische und kurdische Reiseberichte Die Briefe des Berliner Orientalisten Oskar Mann wahrend seiner beiden Expeditionen in den Vorderen Orient 1901-1907. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. google scholar Lazaare, K. (1998). Marokko in deutschen Reiseberichten des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. google scholar
  14. Lemke, B.- Rosbeiani, P. (2018). Unternehmen Mammut. Ein Kommandoeinsatz der Wehrmacht im Nordirak 1943. Bremen: Edition Falkenberg. google scholar
  15. Mann, O. (1891). Abu'l-Hasan Ibn-Muhammad Amîn: Das Mujmilet-târikh-i ba'dnâdirîje des Ibn Muhammed Emîn Abu'l-Hasan aus Gulistâne. Leiden: Brill. google scholar
  16. Mann, O. (1903). Archaologisches aus Persien. Globus, 83, 327-331. google scholar
  17. Mann, O. (1906). Die Mundart der Mukri-Kurden. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer. google scholar
  18. Mann, O. (1910). Die Tâjîk-Mundarten der Provinz Fârs. Berlin: Georg Reimer. google scholar
  19. Marchand, S. (2009). German Orientalism in the Age of Empire Religion, Race, and Scholarships. New York: Cambridge University Press. google scholar
  20. Osterhammel, J. (1989). Distanzerfahrung: Darstellungsweisen des Fremden im 18. Jahrhundert. In. H.-J. König (H rsg.). Der europaische Beobachter auBereuropaischer Kulturen: Zur Problematik der Wirklichkeitswahrnehmung. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot: 9(42). google scholar
  21. Osterhammel, J. (1989). Reisen an die Grenzen der Alten Welt: Asien im Reisebericht des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. In. Peter Jürgen Brenner (Hrsg.). Der Reisebericht: die Entwicklung einer Gattung in der deutschen Literatur. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp: 224-260. google scholar
  22. Paul, L. (2020). Karl Hadank (1882-1945) and the Kurdisch-Persiche Forschungen: Ambitions, Achievements and the ideological Entanglements. DiyârZeitschrift für Osmanistik, Türkei- und Nahostforschung, 29, 289-309. google scholar
  23. Rubie’s, J. P. (2006). Travel writing and ethnography. In. Peter Hulme-Tim Youngs (Hrsg.). The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 242-260. google scholar
  24. Said, E. (1979). Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books. google scholar
  25. Soukah, Z. (2016). Der Orient als kulturelle Selbsterfindung der Deutschen, (unveröffentliche Dissertation) Philosophische Fakultat der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Düsseldorf. google scholar
  26. Teilhaber, A. (2020). Friedrich Rosen: Orientalist Scholarship and International Politics. Berlin: De Gruyter. google scholar
  27. Thompson, C. (2011). Travel Writing. London: Routledge. google scholar
  28. Voltrova, M. (2010). Zu imagologischen Interpretationsverfahren-eine methodenkritische Anmerkung. Germanoslavica, 1-2(21), 135-145. google scholar
  29. Voss, K. (2001). Amerikanisierung.Amerikanisierung?-Die USA in der Berichterstattung zum Bundestagswahlkampf 1998. In. Hans J. Kleinsteuber (Hrsg.). Aktuelle Medientrends in den USA: Journalismus, politische Kommunikation und Medien im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag: 252-264. google scholar
  30. Wagner, V. (2014). Mehmed Rauf’un Avrupa Seyahatnamesi Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme. Güney-Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(26), 97-127. google scholar
  31. Wagner, V. (2016). Imagologie der Fremde. Das Londonbild eines osmanischen Reisenden (Göttingen: Bonn University Press. google scholar
  32. Osterhammel, J. (1989). Reisen an die Grenzen der Alten Welt: Asien im Reisebericht des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. In. Peter Jürgen Brenner (Hrsg.). Der Reisebericht: die Entwicklung einer Gattung in der deutschen Literatur. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp: 224-260. google scholar