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A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN

Year 2004, Issue: 16, 49 - 60, 16.08.2014

Abstract

The West has come to know about the East through the accounts of travelers: some favorable but mostly unfavorable. Over the centuries, these accounts have accumulated into a wealth of travel literature which has come to dominate the Western mind concerning its standing with the East (as theorists such as Edward Said have shown). Largely forged and/or supported by the political structure, compared to the Easterner, the Western man appears in that narrative as the superior power both in intellectual and moral terms, armed with a virile strength to penetrate, and, hence, to understand and to dominate a feminine east, inferior to the West in every respect. This image reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but it remains influential in the minds of many people in both the East and the West. 

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A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN

Year 2004, Issue: 16, 49 - 60, 16.08.2014

Abstract

The West has come to know about the East through the accounts of travelers: some favorable but mostly unfavorable. Over the centuries, these accounts have accumulated into a wealth of travel literature which has come to dominate the Western mind concerning its standing with the East (as theorists such as Edward Said have shown). Largely forged and/or supported by the political structure, compared to the Easterner, the Western man appears in that narrative as the superior power both in intellectual and moral terms, armed with a virile strength to penetrate, and, hence, to understand and to dominate a feminine east, inferior to the West in every respect. This image reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but it remains influential in the minds of many people in both the East and the West. 

References

  • Ad1var, Halide Edip. Memoirs of Halide Edip. London: The Century Co. 1926.
  • The Clown and His Daughter. London: George Allen, 1936.
  • Bhabh<>, H.K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.
  • Ekrcm, Selma. Unveiled: 71ie A111obiography of a Turkish Girl. New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. Robin, Kevin. "Interrupting Identities." In Hall, S. and Gay du, P. eds. Questions of Cultural Identity. London: SAGE Publications, I 996. (61-87)
  • Said, Edward W. Orienlalism. London: Penguin Books, 1978.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section Makaleler
Authors

Oğuz Cebeci This is me

Publication Date August 16, 2014
Submission Date August 16, 2014
Published in Issue Year 2004 Issue: 16

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APA Cebeci, O. (2014). A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies(16), 49-60.
AMA Cebeci O. A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN. Litera. August 2014;(16):49-60.
Chicago Cebeci, Oğuz. “A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, no. 16 (August 2014): 49-60.
EndNote Cebeci O (August 1, 2014) A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 16 49–60.
IEEE O. Cebeci, “A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN”, Litera, no. 16, pp. 49–60, August 2014.
ISNAD Cebeci, Oğuz. “A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 16 (August 2014), 49-60.
JAMA Cebeci O. A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN. Litera. 2014;:49–60.
MLA Cebeci, Oğuz. “A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, no. 16, 2014, pp. 49-60.
Vancouver Cebeci O. A UNIQUE GENRE IN ENGLISH LETTERS: THE MEMOIRS OF OTTOMAN WOMEN. Litera. 2014(16):49-60.