A bridge over the Balkans : Demetra Vaka Brown and the tradition of "Women's Orients" / Eleftheria Arapoglou

This critical study of Demetra Vaka Brown, one of the most significant Greek American writers of the turn of the last century, is framed within the fields of "Orientalism" and cultural studies. At once a white female and a Greek immigrant from the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a writer in...

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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2011]
© 2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Ottoman Travelers
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (196 Seiten)
Notes:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
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