Abstract
Since the 18th century, Turkey increasingly played a significant role for women travel writers
Highlights
Travel writing provides a large source, a huge way from “self” to “other” about perceptions, attitudes and quests of travel writers for the scholars interested in comparative literature, cultural or post-colonial studies
Many of the early female travel writers were either aristocrat, diplomat wives like Lady Marry Montague accompanying their husbands for the sake of business or diplomatic tasks, or housewives, suffragettes, journalists like Grace Ellison
Ellison’s and Zeyneb Hanım’s books as two significant works of women travel writing are rich sources for emancipation history, culture, literature of both European and Ottoman Turkish woman, they extremely contribute to comparative cultural studies and comparative literature
Summary
Travel writing provides a large source, a huge way from “self” to “other” about perceptions, attitudes and quests of travel writers for the scholars interested in comparative literature, cultural or post-colonial studies. A Turkish Woman’s European Impressions which consists of Zeynep Hanım’s letters to Grace Ellison, an English feminist activist and journalist, the writer of the book called An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem, is a book covered by cultural, social, political and literary comparisons of oriental women and occidental women by an “oriental” woman, Zeyneb Hanım. Ellison’s and Zeyneb Hanım’s books as two significant works of women travel writing are rich sources for emancipation history, culture, literature of both European and Ottoman Turkish woman, they extremely contribute to comparative cultural studies and comparative literature. I intend to compare Grace Ellison and Zeyneb Hanım’s works, and to evaluate their orientalist and occidentalist approaches, comparisons in the works as examples of comparative cultural/area studies and comparative perspectives to the literature
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