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Rethinking Orientalism
Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem
Reina Lewis
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Rethinking Orientalism
Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem
Reina Lewis
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The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking had recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about segregated life of self-identified "Oriental" women Demetra Vaka Brown, Halide Edib, Zeyneb Hanum, Melek Hanum and Grace Ellison. Bringing her subjects vividly to life, Lewis uses these texts to challenge the Western orientalist stereotypes that have become commonplace within postcolonial theory.
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EMPIRE
,
NATION
AND
CULTURE
95
7
Edib,
letter
to
the
Nation
,
1909,
in
Jenkins
(1911:
25).
8
I
am
grateful
to
Carolyn
Goffman
for
answering
enquiries
about
the
college.
See
also
Goffman
(2002).
9
Edib,
letter
to
the
Nation
,
1909,
in
Jenkins
(1911:
25).
10
Edib,
letter
to
the
Nation
,
1909,
in
Jenkins
(1911:
26).
11
Actual
numbers
remain
unclear,
as
does
the
balance
between
voluntary
nurses
and
those
in
receipt
of
payment.
I
am
grateful
to
Nicole
van
Os
for
her
discussion
of
these
points.
12
Correspondence
from
the
Houghton
Mifflin
manuscripts
at
Houghton
Library,
Har-
vard
University.
See
bibliography
for
references.
13
I
am
grateful
to
Gayatri
Spivak
for
her
discussion
of
this
point.
14
Kalogeras
and
Frierson,
private
correspondence.