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The Books of Chilam Balam are a series of manuscripts produced in Yucatecan Maya in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries that previously were believed to record information on the precolonial Maya belief system. However, much of the information contained therein stems from Eu…

This thesis explores the Orientalist discourse in four of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and two of his prose essays. The major aspects of Orientalism examined in Poe’s works rely on the theortical ideas of Edwad Said’s Orientalism and other ideas developed by important Arab writers. S…