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Othello is mostly analyzed as the representative of the colonized black people by some scholars. For instance, Stephen Greenblatt in chapter ‘the improvisation of power’ of his work, Renaissance Self-Fashioning, depicts Iago as the colonizer and Othello as the colonized. Iago emphasizes on Othello’s physical differences and his manipulation leads Othello towards his own fall but Iago does not necessarily colonize him. Othello is a skilled commander who, in urgency, is trusted by Venice and they rely on his leadership to save Cyprus from the Turks. Othello is not Venetian and more importantly he is circumcised. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries English and other European pirates and merchants were “turning Turk” to benefit from the profitable life in the Mediterranean coasts of Levant and North Africa. Othello can be seen as a counter example of those Europeans who deserted their homelands to enjoy advantages of belonging to a Muslim society. In this essay I argue reasons of fear and urgency, in the play, based upon historical facts of the period when Othello was written. England and Ottomans were in psychological cold war at the time of the composition of Othello, a situation where England was not strong enough to imagine a fulfilled conquest of the Ottomans due to the military might of the latter. All these find their voices in Othello. As a Muslim who became Christian, I also argue Othello’s turning Turk and his connection and relation with the Turks. Othello might be seen as a counter example to renegades

i̇stanbul aydın university international journal of media, culture and literature/istanbul aydın university international journal of media, culture and literature

The Other in Othello: Backsliding and Re-turning Turk of the Moor Othello’da öteki: Mağripli Türklerin Dönüşü ve Dinden Uzaklaşması