Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women: New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras

Demetra Vaka Brown

Published by Gorgias Press 2004

Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women

New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras

Demetra Vaka Brown

In the series Cultures in Dialogue: First Series

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463210052

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Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CULTURES IN DIALOGUE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
SERIES ONE: OCCIDENTALISM, AND WOMEN'S WRITING Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONTESTED, FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC SPACES: THE POLITICS OF DEMETRA VAKA BROWN'S IDENTITY Yiorgos D. Kalogeras Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
WORKS CITED Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
FURTHER READING Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
NOTE Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
I. COMING HOME TO TURKEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II . MIHIRMAH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
III. DJIMLAH, THE THINKER, SELIM PASHA'S FOURTH WIFE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
IV. VALIDÉ HANOUM,THE RESIGNED FIRST WIFE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
V. THE GIFT-WIFE FROM THE SULTAN'S PALACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
VI. HOULMÉ HANOUM, THE DISCONTENTED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
VII. SUFFRAGETTES OF THE HAREM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
VIII. THE LOVE OF NOR-SEMBAH AND HAKIF BEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
IX. A DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HAREM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
X. A FLIGHT FROM THE HAREM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
- Main content: 316

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Published: October 8, 2004
ISBN: 9781463210052