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In the Palaces of the Sultan : New Introduction by Teresa Heffernan / Anna Bowman Dodd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures in Dialogue: First SeriesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463210069
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- THE REFLEXIVE ORIENTALIST: AN AMERICAN IN ISTANBUL -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. WITHIN THE GATES -- II. THE MESSENGERS FROM THE PALACE -- III. THE SELAMLIK — FROM THE PALACE OF YILDIZ KIOSK -- IV. THE PRIVATE AUDIENCE -- V. TEA IN HIS MAJESTY'S STABLES -- VI. THE BANQUET IN THE PALACE -- VII. IN THE PALACE THEATRE -- VIII. THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS -- IX. THE IMPERIAL TREASURY AND LIBRARY -- X. THE HAREM AND COURT OF THE SERAGLIO -- XI. SOME AMBASSADORS AT THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS -- XII. O TOP-KHANEH -- XIII. IN THE ROYAL CAÏQUES -- XIV. A TURKISH COUR D'ÉTAT -- XV. A CHAIN OF ROYAL PALACES -- XVI. THE DANCING DERVISHES -- XVII. ALL IN A DAY -- XVIII. THE CITIES OF SEVERUS, CONSTANTINE, AND JUSTINIAN -- XIX. CONSTANTINOPLE AND SANTA SOPHIA -- XX. THE MOSLEM CITY -- XXI. PERA AND GALATA -- XXII. SCUTARI AND BRUSA -- NOTES AND IMPRESSIONS -- I. TWO OLD TRAVELLERS -- II. "THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK" -- III. "ARE THERE NO HAREMS?" -- IV. HAREMS AND THE "KAIF" -- V. THE COMMON PEOPLE AND THE RELIGION OF MAHOMET -- VI. WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN TURKEY -- VII. SLAVES AND SLAVERY IN TURKEY -- VIII. THE IMPERIAL HAREM -- IX. HAREM DISTRACTIONS AND TURKISH HOUSEHOLDS -- X. TURKISH REFORMS AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES
Summary: As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity and progress, she considers Turkish women's rights, harems and marriage, the management of the household, education, slavery, the Sultan's reign, and nationalist movements in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. She caters to the American market for Orientalism but is also reflexive about its employment, both invoking and undercutting stereotypes as she addresses the "Eastern Question."

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- THE REFLEXIVE ORIENTALIST: AN AMERICAN IN ISTANBUL -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. WITHIN THE GATES -- II. THE MESSENGERS FROM THE PALACE -- III. THE SELAMLIK — FROM THE PALACE OF YILDIZ KIOSK -- IV. THE PRIVATE AUDIENCE -- V. TEA IN HIS MAJESTY'S STABLES -- VI. THE BANQUET IN THE PALACE -- VII. IN THE PALACE THEATRE -- VIII. THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS -- IX. THE IMPERIAL TREASURY AND LIBRARY -- X. THE HAREM AND COURT OF THE SERAGLIO -- XI. SOME AMBASSADORS AT THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS -- XII. O TOP-KHANEH -- XIII. IN THE ROYAL CAÏQUES -- XIV. A TURKISH COUR D'ÉTAT -- XV. A CHAIN OF ROYAL PALACES -- XVI. THE DANCING DERVISHES -- XVII. ALL IN A DAY -- XVIII. THE CITIES OF SEVERUS, CONSTANTINE, AND JUSTINIAN -- XIX. CONSTANTINOPLE AND SANTA SOPHIA -- XX. THE MOSLEM CITY -- XXI. PERA AND GALATA -- XXII. SCUTARI AND BRUSA -- NOTES AND IMPRESSIONS -- I. TWO OLD TRAVELLERS -- II. "THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK" -- III. "ARE THERE NO HAREMS?" -- IV. HAREMS AND THE "KAIF" -- V. THE COMMON PEOPLE AND THE RELIGION OF MAHOMET -- VI. WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN TURKEY -- VII. SLAVES AND SLAVERY IN TURKEY -- VIII. THE IMPERIAL HAREM -- IX. HAREM DISTRACTIONS AND TURKISH HOUSEHOLDS -- X. TURKISH REFORMS AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES

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As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity and progress, she considers Turkish women's rights, harems and marriage, the management of the household, education, slavery, the Sultan's reign, and nationalist movements in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. She caters to the American market for Orientalism but is also reflexive about its employment, both invoking and undercutting stereotypes as she addresses the "Eastern Question."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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