A Libyan Novel in Metropolis: In the Country of Men

Orientalism, which played a key role in the exploitation of resources owned by the Eastern societies, was born mostly at the hands of the people with Western origins and carried on by them for a long time. It is possible to say that people with Western origins remained at bay and stopped feeding Orientalism openly after the second half of the twentieth century, and especially after the criticisms of Edward Said. It seems that the emerging vacuum is filled by the natives who are fluent in Western languages. In this new phenomenon called as New-Orientalism, the native informant puts his so-called inside knowledge on the Western market in the form of travel writing, memoir, journalistic reporting, and social commentary with the mixture of prejudices created by old Orientalism. In this article, these subjects have been treated more comprehensively and the book In the Country of Men by the Libyan author Hisham Matar has been analyzed in their context