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Women Writing Greece

Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Av Vassiliki Kolocotroni

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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. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt449 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Antal sidor257
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042024816

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Vassiliki KOLOCOTRONI and Efterpi MITSI: IntroductionEfterpi MITSI: Lady Elizabeth Craven’s Letters from Athens and the Female PicturesqueVassiliki MARKIDOU: Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in GreeceEvgenia SIFAKI: A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan’s Woman: Or Ida of AthensMaria KOUNDOURA: Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women’s Travel Writing and the Production of IdentitiesChurnjeet KAUR MAHN: The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene’s Wayfaring SketchesTD OLVERSON: ‘A world without woman in any true sense’: Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer’s Flying Leaves from East and West Martha KLIRONOMOS: British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930Artemis LEONTIS: Eva Palmer’s Distinctive Greek JourneyChristina DOKOU: ‘No Place Like Home’: Gillian Bouras and the ‘Others’Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant TalesAsimina KARAVANTA: The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace’s Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf’s CassandraContributorsIndex