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Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women : New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras / Demetra Vaka Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures in Dialogue: First SeriesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463210052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.41209496 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1726.7 .V353 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- SERIES ONE: OCCIDENTALISM, AND WOMEN'S WRITING -- CONTESTED, FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC SPACES: THE POLITICS OF DEMETRA VAKA BROWN'S IDENTITY -- WORKS CITED -- FURTHER READING -- NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. COMING HOME TO TURKEY -- II . MIHIRMAH -- III. DJIMLAH, THE THINKER, SELIM PASHA'S FOURTH WIFE -- IV. VALIDÉ HANOUM,THE RESIGNED FIRST WIFE -- V. THE GIFT-WIFE FROM THE SULTAN'S PALACE -- VI. HOULMÉ HANOUM, THE DISCONTENTED -- VII. SUFFRAGETTES OF THE HAREM -- VIII. THE LOVE OF NOR-SEMBAH AND HAKIF BEY -- IX. A DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HAREM -- X. A FLIGHT FROM THE HAREM
Summary: Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman.
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Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- SERIES ONE: OCCIDENTALISM, AND WOMEN'S WRITING -- CONTESTED, FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC SPACES: THE POLITICS OF DEMETRA VAKA BROWN'S IDENTITY -- WORKS CITED -- FURTHER READING -- NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. COMING HOME TO TURKEY -- II . MIHIRMAH -- III. DJIMLAH, THE THINKER, SELIM PASHA'S FOURTH WIFE -- IV. VALIDÉ HANOUM,THE RESIGNED FIRST WIFE -- V. THE GIFT-WIFE FROM THE SULTAN'S PALACE -- VI. HOULMÉ HANOUM, THE DISCONTENTED -- VII. SUFFRAGETTES OF THE HAREM -- VIII. THE LOVE OF NOR-SEMBAH AND HAKIF BEY -- IX. A DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HAREM -- X. A FLIGHT FROM THE HAREM

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Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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