The Orientalized Frankenstein: A Comparative Study on Mary Shelley’s and Ahmed Sadaawi’s Making of Frankenstein

This paper is a comparative visiting of ‘Frankenstein’ in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein: TheModern Prometheus’ and Ahmed Sadaawi’s ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ from Edward Said’sperspective on Orientalism. While both stories’ protagonists are made of human body parts, theirpresentations, one a western and the other a middle eastern work, suggest an implied difference inassociation with Orientalism. Said’s groundbreaking work defines orientalism as the west’s formof restructuring and practicing power over the Orient. Influencing the scholarship in a variety ofdisciplines, Orientalism introduces the dominant discourse through which the concept of the otheris defined under the hegemony of the legitimized dominant.

Keywords:

Orientalism , Frankenstein , the other , Shelley , Sadaawi