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A Bridge Over the Balkans
Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of "Women's Orients"
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eBook - PDF
A Bridge Over the Balkans
Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of "Women's Orients"
About this book
This critical study of Demetra Vaka Brown, one of the most significant Greek American writers of the turn of the last century, is framed within the fields of "Orientalism" and cultural studies. At once a white female and a Greek immigrant from the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a writer in the United States, publishing in English and contributing her work to mainstream publications. The book presents the identity politics of Vaka Brown, recovering the discursive techniques in her identification processes and assessing the significance of her agency in the context of the themes and preoccupations of Orientalism.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Turning East, Turning West: Women Orientalists, Spatial Representation and Identity Politics
- Chapter 1. Demetra Vaka Brown: “Child of the Orient” or Cultural Mediator?
- Chapter 2. Thinking Geographically / Thinking Historically: A Child of the Orient, “With a Heart for Any Fate,” Journalism
- Chapter 3. Women and/of the Orient: Demetra Vaka Brown, Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Anna Bowman Dodd, Halide Adivar Edib
- Chapter 4. Demetra Vaka Brown and the Modern Greek State: The Heart of the Balkans and In the Heart of German Intrigue
- Epilogue
- Bibliography