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Book SynopsisAdapting Shahrazad's Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing. Eda Dedebas Dundar's cutting-edge study is the first to discover a strong link between traveling texts and the traveling women in fiction, analyzing the ways in which she is molded by her previous exposure to stories. This unique and interdisciplinary book explores the relationship between traveling and writing through the incorporation of various disciplines, including gender studies and postcolonial studies.
Through close analysis, the author illuminates three main concepts: travel as a metaphor for rewriting, the female wanderer as the reworked adaptation of Odysseus and Shahrazad, and the notion of adaptation as a metatextual travel between Victorian and contemporary, nostalg
Table of ContentsContents: 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.
