Orientalizing the colonized people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Abstract

This research entitled “Orientalizing the colonized people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels” casts light on how the orientalism has relegated non Europeans into degraded level. The nonwestern characters in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels are subjected to various subservience experiences, declaring them as non-human beings because of radical differences in them and their life styles compared to Europeans. This Travelogue presents Gulliver as a representative European and Lilliputians as non-European people. Lilliputians have their own way of living. By misfortune of ship wreck, Gulliver reached Lilliput. There he examines Lilliputians and judge them to be inferior humans who are diminutive to Gulliver not only in context of physical size but also intellectually and socially.