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Vaka Brown, Demetra. The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul)
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| Title: | The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul) | | Series: | Cultures in Dialogue 13 | | By Demetra Vaka Brown | | ISBN: | 978-1-59333-217-4 | | Publication Date: | 3/2006 | | From the 1923 edition | | Language: | English | | Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in | | Pages: | 356 | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
In the Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul), Demetra Vaka (1877-1946), an expatriate of Ottoman Turkey, established American journalist, and acquaintance of Prince Sabaheddin, returns to her native Istanbul in 1921, after a 20-year absence. Describing women's lives in post-World War I Turkey, she reports on the successful project of female emancipation pursued by Mustafa Kemal as part of the nationalist agenda. Noting how much this project had benefited upper- and middle-class Turkish women, Vaka nonetheless regrets that the gradual emergence of the monocultural, modern Republic was bringing an end to the multiethnic character of the Ottoman State. In this period of social and political turmoil, her optimism about the active role promised for women in the new nation is in tension with the elegiac picture that she paints for the ethnic minorities in the new Republic. This is especially seen in her nostalgia for the old ways of harem life that she had shared with the Muslim friends of her youth.
Reviews"Each woman Vaka's narrator encounters represents a distinct Orientalist situation, thus denoting a plurality of referents for the Oriental female. Vaka's Orientalist examples illustrate Orientalism as a nexus of various modes of representation. In both books, the series of observations that Vaka's autobiographical narrator makes about women in Turkey resist and challenge the notion of a closed Orientalist discourse that has the potential to manage and colonize the 'otherness' of the 'Eastern lady.' Subsequently, Haremlik and The Unveiled Ladies of Stamboul, as hereby discussed, undermine the notion of an oversimplified, consistent, univocal Orientalist discourse that effectively produces 'cultural differences.'"--Eleftheria Arapoglou, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora
"Vaka Brown constantly sets off attitudes heard in her adopted country from those in her country of birth, using this 'dialogue' to probe at stereotypes."--Dr. Marilyn Booth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents
- At the Gateway of Asia
- Constantinople's Rip Van Winkle
- An Old Turkish Lady Speaks Out
- The Kemalists and Their Dreams
- The Avenger of Her Race
- Mohammed Her Conqueror
- The Lady of the Mended Glove
- She of the Twilight
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