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245	0	0	_aWomen writing Greece : _bessays on Hellenism, Orientalism and travel / _cedited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi.
260			_aAmsterdam : _bRodopi, _c2008.
300			_a257 p. ; _c22 cm.
336			_2rdacontent
337			_2rdamedia
338			_2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, _x0929-6999 ; _v118
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction/ 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/ TD Olverson -- British women travellers to Greece, 1880-1930/ Martha Klironomos -- Eval 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/ Assimina Karavanta.
520			_a"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 crosscultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of the '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 Crave, 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 aviety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames."-- Publisher's description.
650		0	_aWomen _xTravel _xHistoriography _914405
650		0	_aOrientalism in literature _914406
650		0	_aHellenism in literature _914407
650		0	_aEnglish prose literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism _914408
650		0	_aWomen travelers _zGreat Britain _xBiography _xHistory and criticism _914409
650		0	_aTravelers' writings, English _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism _914410
651		0	_aGreece _xDescription and travel _9932
700	1		_aKolocotroni, Vassiliki _914403 _eeditor
700	1		_aMetse, Euterpe _914404 _eeditor
830		0	_aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft _v118 _914402
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