The 1953 Iranian Coup and Deconstruction of The Orientalism Discourse in The Novel “Long Distance Races”

The novel “Long Distance Races” (Sibaq al-masafat at-tawila) is the story of an English agent in Iran who has headed to this country in order to defeat nationalization of oil industry and safeguard the Britain’s colonial interests in Iran. This novel, whether from centrality of the colonial character or simulation of the orientalist texts, is considered a turning point in the narrative works of "Abdul Rahman Munif". The main objective of this article is to analyze the implications of the post-colonial novel, according to the "History" and "Orientalism". In the historical material, the author cites 1953 coup in Iran, creating a new picture of the evolution of classical colonialism and the emergence of "Neocolonialism". In the “Orientalism” material too, this novel, using orientalist texts cloning, has pictured the collapse of the orientalism foundation and the false dichotomy of "Ego/other" in the post-colonial era in two dimensions of colonizer and colonized.