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Women writing Greece : essays on Hellenism, orientalism and travel / edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi.
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English
Published/Created
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
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257 pages ; 22 cm
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DF721 .W65 2008
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Travelers' writings, English
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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English prose literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Orientalism in literature
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Hellenism in literature
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Women travelers
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Great Britain
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Biography
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History and criticism
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Greece
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Description and travel
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Kolocotroni, Vassiliki
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Mētsē, Euterpē
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Series
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 118.
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 118
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"Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi
Lady Elizabeth Craven's Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque / Efterpi Mitsi
Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece / Vassiliki Markidou
A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan's Woman: Or Ida of Athens / Evgenia Sifaki
Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women's Travel Writing and the Production of Identities / Maria Koundoura
The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene's Wayfaring Sketches / Churnjeet Kaur Mahn
'A world without woman in any true sense': Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer's Flying Leaves from East and West / T. D. Olverson
British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930 / Martha Klironomos
Eva Palmer's Distinctive Greek Journey / Artemis Leontis
'No Place Like Home': Gillian Bouras and the 'Others' / Christina Dokou
Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales / Helga Ramsey-Kurz
The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace's Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf's Cassandra / Asimina Karavanta.
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9789042024816 ((paperback))
904202481X ((paperback))
OCLC
272399384
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