摘要：Identification and categorization of the peculiar orientalist stereotypes present in Louis Tracy’s The Red Year: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (1907) is the aim of the article. The argument is theoretically pivoted on the Saidian postcolonial proposition presented in his Orientalism (1978). The researchers contend that the selected novel stands as a superlative example of the colonial discourse and orientalist rhetoric marked by supremacism and parochialism. The prevalent (mis)representational schema of the text has been explicated and various instances of social, religious, and racial branding have been analyzed. From characterization to narration, Tracy’s fictional discourse has conspicuous xenophobic colour and prejudiced parlance. The native figures have been demonized and details of the events distorted, whereas the English have been aggrandized to pitch the idea of their civilizational supremacy. Thus, the article exposes the politics of colonial poetics by identifying the derogatory stereotypes and exposing the pejorative rhetoric used therein.
