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Adapting Shahrazad's odyssey : the female wanderer and storyteller in Victorian and contemporary Middle Eastern literature / Eda Dedebas Dundar.
- Title
- Adapting Shahrazad's odyssey : the female wanderer and storyteller in Victorian and contemporary Middle Eastern literature / Eda Dedebas Dundar.
- Author
- Dedebas Dundar, Eda
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2015]
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- Description
- x, 144 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing. Eda Dedebas Dundar's cutting-edge study is the first to discover a strong link between traveling texts and the traveling women in fiction, analyzing the ways in which she is molded by her previous exposure to stories. This unique and interdisciplinary book explores the relationship between traveling and writing through the incorporation of various disciplines, including gender studies and postcolonial studies. Through close analysis, the author illuminates three main concepts: travel as a metaphor for rewriting, the female wanderer as the reworked adaptation of Odysseus and Shahrazad, and the notion of adaptation as a metatextual travel between Victorian and contemporary, nostalgia and progress. Scholars whose areas of expertise include nineteenth- and twentieth-century global Anglophone literature as well as travel writing and gender studies will find this text of particular interest. Moreover, this book further highlights fields of study in the humanities, including literature, gender studies, and civil liberties, aimed at an academic audience interested in travel narratives, women{u0092}s writing, postcolonial literature, women{u0092}s studies, and human rights. This text will be of special interest in courses such as Victorian women{u0092}s writing, Victorian children{u0092}s literature, global Anglophone literatures, women writers from the Middle East, and literary adaptation and appropriation.
- Series Statement
- American University studies. Series XIX: general literature ; Vol. 40
- Uniform Title
- American university studies. Series XIX, General literature v. 40.
- Subject
- Odysseus
- Scheherazade
- Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
- 1800 - 2099
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women travelers in literature
- Storytellers in literature
- Literature > Adaptations > History and criticism
- Middle Eastern literature > 21st century > History and criticism
- Middle Eastern literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Travel writing > Middle East > History
- Travel writing > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English fiction
- English fiction > Women authors
- Literature > Adaptations
- Middle Eastern literature
- Travel writing
- Great Britain
- Middle East
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Victorian odysseys: The legacy of Homer as envisioned by Victorian women writers -- Part II: Traveling across time and texts: Rewriting of travel in post-Shahrazadic women's writing from the Middle East.
- ISBN
- 9781433130458
- 1433130459
- 9781453915752 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015005812
- OCLC
- 905970017
- SCSB-12881615
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library