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Venturing beyond borders
Reflections on genre, function and boundaries in Middle Eastern travel writing- Editors:
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- Series:
- Istanbuler Texte und Studien (ITS), Volume 30
- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
This volume is the result of a workshop entitled “Travel writing between fact and fiction – genre, functions and boundaries” organized at Bogaziçi University Istanbul in December 2010 within the frame of the research project “Europe from the outside – formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe from inside Europe”, based at the University of Bonn.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2013
- Copyright Year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-89913-977-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-95650-707-6
- Publisher
- Ergon, Baden-Baden
- Series
- Istanbuler Texte und Studien (ITS)
- Volume
- 30
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 268
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
- Self and Other, Here and There. Travel writing and the construction of identity and placePages 11 - 28Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- The image of Europe and Europeans in Ottoman-Turkish travel writingPages 29 - 52Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Ottoman travel accounts to Europe. An overview of their historical development and a commented researchers’ listPages 53 - 74Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Travelling within the Empire. Perceptions of the East in the historical narratives on Cairo by Mustafa Âli and Evliya ÇelebiPages 75 - 100Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Religion as a determining factor of the Self and the Other in travel literature. How Islamic is the Muslim worldview? Evliya Çelebi and his successors reconsideredPages 101 - 130Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Iranian women on the road. The case of Ṣadīqe Doulatābādī in Europe, 1923–27Pages 131 - 156Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Taḥṣīl rehberi as a source for both the traveller and the historianPages 157 - 178Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Rashīd Riḍā in Europe. A monomythic reading of his travel narrativePages 179 - 202Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Imaginary travel(s) as a discursive strategy. The case of Ahmet Mithat and Ottoman constructions of EuropePages 203 - 226Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Appendix. A researchers’ list of Ottoman travel accounts to Europe. Bibliographical partPages 227 - 262Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- About The AuthorsPages 263 - 268 Download chapter (PDF)




