Vassiliki Kolocotroni | Efterpi Mitsi Women writing Greece
essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and travel
Gedrukt boek
Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. The essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.