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Book SynopsisBouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 illuminates the life and times of Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825), legendary heroine of the Greek Revolution and one of the most important figures in modern Greek history, the Mediterranean, and indeed, the world. Using a variety of methodologies from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors present in-depth and highly nuanced analyses of the history, politics, and culture of nineteenth century Ottoman Greece and Bouboulina's contributions to the Greek War of Independence. By considering her three-century impact on feminism, cultural production, and as a touchstone of diasporic Greek identity, this volume also expands our understanding of her far-reaching and under-recognized contributions. Given the important role that Bouboulina continues to have in popular culture, this collection is all the more vital in advancing the critical discourse on 1821 and ensuring that Bouboulina occupies a central place in that conversation.
Trade ReviewBouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821, is a groundbreaking collection of essays that recovers a woman’s life from erasure in the dominant discourses of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Bouboulina's story is so big that it occupies several languages, multiple archives, and diverse sources. Yet she is little known outside a narrow set of philhellenic and Greek national narratives. The essays in this book go beyond these conventional stories to illuminate overlooked gendered, transcultural, and transnational dimensions of the life and reception of Bouboulina and reevaluate her representation. In so doing, the book compellingly charts new directions for the study of the Greek Revolution, the Age of Revolutions and biography.
-- Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan
A novel and thoroughly overdue examination of a national myth. This collection restores context and political substance to the most widely celebrated and least understood protagonist in events that shaped the modern world.
-- Margarite Poulos, Western Sydney University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
April Kalogeropoulos Householder
Chapter 1. Re-framing the Greek Revolution: A Critical Survey of Sources Related to Bouboulina
April Kalogeropoulos Householder
Part I: Philhellenism and the Myth of Bouboulina
Chapter 2. The Greek Heroine: Bouboulina’s Legacy in Nineteenth-Century America
Maureen Connors Santelli
Chapter 3. Bodies at War: Laskarina Bouboulina, Lord Byron, and the Gender Politics of the Greek Revolution
Alexander Grammatikos
Part II: Representations of Bouboulina in Art and Popular Culture
Chapter 4. Laskarina Bouboulina Imagined: Portraits of a Greek Heroine
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Chapter 5. A Revolutionary Cinematic Heroine: Irene Papas in Bouboulina (1959)
Lydia Papadimitriou
Chapter 6. “You only wanted me for the kitchen. That’s why I revolted like Bouboulina”: Gendered Commemorations of Bouboulina in Greek Music
Yona Stamatis
Part III: International Perspectives on Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution
Chapter 7. “The Hive of Villainy”: Ottoman Perspectives on Spetses During the Greek Revolution
Berke Torunoğlu
Chapter 8. A Feminist Evaluation of Bouboulina’s Representation in German Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Anastasia Antonopoulou
Chapter 9. “Whether I am equal to men, you will learn later”: Bouboulina, Emilia Plater, and Polish Philhellenic Poetry
Ewa Róża Janion
Chapter 10. Bouboulina and Italian Philhellenism
Gabriele Paolini
Part IV: Legacies
Chapter 11. Civil War and the Assassination of Bouboulina
Kalomoira Argyriou-Koumpi
Chapter 12. “Where Courage is Still Close”: The Reception of Laskarina Bouboulina in South America
Cristina Tsardikos
