@article{2016,title={ORIENTALISM IN AGATHA CHRISTIE’S APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH},abstractNode={Appointment with Death (1938) is Agatha Christie’s one of thirty-three Poirot novels and of seven oriental novels. It is known that Christie wrote her novels with oriental settings under the impressions of her own experiences in the Middle East gained through the archeological expeditions due to the explorations of her archeologist husband, Max Mallowan. Yet Appointment with Death offers a postcolonial analysis owing to its orientalist attitude to Eastern world and people – an approach that seems to have been adopted by Christie not only by the real impressions but the prejudiced ideas and clichés about the Orient and oriental. The essential aim of this paper is to detect the portrayal of the Orient and oriental people, things, values and so on in Appointment with Death. Edward W. Said’s critique of Orientalism as defined and explained in his groundbreaking work, Orientalism constitutes the theoretical base of this study. Orientalism has been defined by Said as a Eurocentric belief and},author={Mevlüde ZENGİN},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}