A challenge to travel literature and stereotypes by two Turkish women: Zeyneb Hanoum and Selma Ekrem
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Title: | A challenge to travel literature and stereotypes by two Turkish women: Zeyneb Hanoum and Selma Ekrem |
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Other Titles: | El desafío a la literatura de viajes y sus estereotipos de dos mujeres turcas: Zeyneb Hanoum y Selma Ekrem |
Authors: | Ezer, Ozlem |
Keywords: | Mujeres viajeras | Literatura de viajes | Mujeres turcas | Imágenes | Women travellers | Travel literature | Turkish women | Images |
Issue Date: | Dec-2004 |
Publisher: | Universidad de Alicante. Centro de Estudios sobre la Mujer |
Citation: | EZER, Ozlem. "A challenge to travel literature and stereotypes by two Turkish women: Zeyneb Hanoum and Selma Ekrem". Feminismo/s. N. 4 (dic. 2004). ISSN 1696-8166, pp. 61-68 |
Abstract: | Este artículo introduce los relatos de viajes de dos mujeres turcas escritos en inglés a princpios del siglo XX desde una perspectiva crítica feminista y desconstruye la imagen occidental de la mujer turca. Se presentan también las teorías e ilustraciones de la imagen y de la formación de la identidad, así como la alternativa crítica más reciente al discurso orientalista. Las viajeras cuyas raíces se originan en las culturas occidentales u orientales están más predispuetas a desconstruir imágenes, estereotipos y prejuicios que los viajeros. La existencia de un lenguaje distintivo, de apoyo mutuo entre las viajeras, se hace evidente a pesar de las complejidades y contradicciones que estos relatos de viaje pudieran tener. | This article will introduce the travel accounts by two Turkish women written in English in the early 20th century from a feminist and critical perspective and deconstruct the Turkish women’s image of the West. The theories and illustrations of image and identity formation as well as the most recent alternative criticism to orientalist discourse will also be presented. Women travellers whose roots are originated in the western or eastern cultures are more willing to deconstruct images, stereotypes and prejudices than male travellers. Existence of a distinctive and supportive language among women travellers becomes evident despite of some complexities and contradictions in the texts of these travel accounts may have. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/3132 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/fem.2004.4.04 |
ISSN: | 1696-8166 |
DOI: | 10.14198/fem.2004.4.04 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Appears in Collections: | Feminismo/s - 2004, N. 04 - Writing, Memoirs, Autobiography and History |
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