Beschreibung
focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveller and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing.
Autorenportrait
Eda Dedebas Dundar is a visiting scholar at University of Washington, Seattle and a former postdoctoral fellow at University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Connecticut. She holds a BA and an MA in English from Bogazici University. Her research interests include Victorian literature, women writers from the Middle East, contemporary Anglophone literature, and travel writing. Her publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as
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Inhalt
Contents: Victorian Odysseys: The Legacy of Homer as Envisioned by Victorian Women Writers – Wandering Epic Hero from a Critical Lens
in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm – Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses: Heterogeneity of Female Travellers in Victorian Children’s Literature – Traveling across Time and Texts: Rewriting of Travel in Post-Shahrazadic Women’s Writing from the Middle East – Haunted by Past: Spatial, Temporal, and Metatextual Travel in Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love – Juxtaposing East and West, Homer and Shahrazad in Güneli Gün’s On the Road to Baghdad.
