Women travel writings: a comparative journey
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Tarih
2015
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Yayıncı
Scientific Research Publıshıng
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Since the 18th century, Turkey increasingly played a significant role for women travel writers
such as Lady Marry Montague, Elizabeth Craven, Julia Pardoe, Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Eliza
Cheney Abbott Schneider, Mary Mills Patrick, Grace Ellison, who were in curiosity to discover the
other: their cultures, customs, literatures, social, political and historical backgrounds and improvements,
emancipation movements, sexualities and so on. Whereas some women writers including
Zeyneb Hanım, Melek Hanım, Demetre Vaka and Halide Edib Adıvar penned impressions
about both European and Turkey. In this study, the works named An Englishwoman in a Turkish
Harem by Grace Ellison and A Turkish Woman’s European Impressions by Zeynep Hanım will be
evaluated in regard to comparative literature and cultural studies. Additionally, I argue that comparative
literature accepted as a most advantageous approach for literary and cultural studies can
probably contribute much more than the other disciplines to cultural studies and cultural history,
even feminist cultural history, comparative cultural perspectives to literature; and or cultural
studies open a large umbrella for international cultures and literatures in the light of these two
works focused on literary writings, experiments, representations of occidental and oriental
women, and occidental and oriental perceptions.
Açıklama
Anahtar Kelimeler
Self & Other, Oriental and Occidental Women, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies
Kaynak
Open Journal of Social Sciences
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3
Künye
Sahin, Elmas. (2015) Women Travel Writings: A Comparative Journey. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3,
54-65.
