Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureGalina I. Yermolenko This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other. |
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... Western observers: “in doing this,” wrote ambassador Busbecq, “he violated the custom of the sultans who had preceded him, none of whom had contracted a marriage since the time of Bajazet i.”19 the wedding was celebrated in a ...
... Western observers: “in doing this,” wrote ambassador Busbecq, “he violated the custom of the sultans who had preceded him, none of whom had contracted a marriage since the time of Bajazet i.”19 the wedding was celebrated in a ...
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... Western European countries. this composite Western image largely follows the development of Europe's relations with the turkish “other” throughout the ages, as the very concept of “Europeanness” was evolving against the image of the ...
... Western European countries. this composite Western image largely follows the development of Europe's relations with the turkish “other” throughout the ages, as the very concept of “Europeanness” was evolving against the image of the ...
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... has appeared in recent ukranian literature, an image that “demythologizes and demystifies” her through its “hybridization with the conventional orientalist fantasies of Western libertine pornography.” as a case Introduction 17.
... has appeared in recent ukranian literature, an image that “demythologizes and demystifies” her through its “hybridization with the conventional orientalist fantasies of Western libertine pornography.” as a case Introduction 17.
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... western fantasies of the orient and other clichés associated with the self/other dichotomy. part ii of the volume contains a number of never-before-published translations from continental European texts involving Roxolana. The first ...
... western fantasies of the orient and other clichés associated with the self/other dichotomy. part ii of the volume contains a number of never-before-published translations from continental European texts involving Roxolana. The first ...
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... Western chronicles and compilations.80 pinto's translation of several scenes from lope de Vega's play La Santa Liga (1598–1603) provides a glimpse into early modern spanish literary constructions of Roxolana (Rosa Solimana), a little ...
... Western chronicles and compilations.80 pinto's translation of several scenes from lope de Vega's play La Santa Liga (1598–1603) provides a glimpse into early modern spanish literary constructions of Roxolana (Rosa Solimana), a little ...
Contents
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Part 2 Translations | 165 |
Appendix 1 Plot Summaries | 255 |
Appendix 2 Names | 271 |
Appendix 3 Chronology | 275 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 301 |
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