Download e-book for kindle: Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture by Galina I. Yermolenko

By Galina I. Yermolenko

ISBN-10: 0754667618

ISBN-13: 9780754667612

This assortment is the 1st book-length scholarly examine of the pervasiveness and importance of Roxolana within the eu mind's eye. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," used to be a sixteenth-century Ukrainian girl who made an exceptional occupation from harem slave and concubine to criminal spouse and consultant of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the extraordinary (1520-1566). Her impact on Ottoman affairs generated legends in lots of a ecu kingdom. The essays accumulated right here symbolize an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the members view Roxolana as a transnational determine that mirrored the moving eu attitudes in the direction of "the Other," they usually examine her snapshot in a large choice of resources, starting from early smooth ancient chronicles, dramas and commute writings, to twentieth-century historic novels and performs. additionally incorporated are six ecu resource texts that includes Roxolana, the following translated into glossy English for the 1st time. Importantly, this assortment examines Roxolana from either Western and japanese eu views; resource fabric is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. the quantity is a crucial contribution to the learn of early glossy transnationalism, cross-cultural alternate, and notions of identification, the Self, and the Other.

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