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Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse
Greece has always occupied a prevalent position in European philosophy. During the Enlightenment, the Greco-Roman culture gained a new impetus, which paved the way for the surge of the Grand Tour and established Italy as a popular travel destination amongst European travellers who yearned to be in close communion with its ancient sites. Unlike Italy, Greece still posed a challenge to the average travel writer, since it functioned as a bridge between Europe and the Orient. The gradual shift of focus from Neoclassical ideals to Northernism, which conveniently conformed to the nation-building Anglo-Saxon paradigm, marked a parallel reversal of cultural order, which resulted in the view of Greec...
The Athenaeum
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Alep dans la littérature de voyage européenne pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918)
Titre : Alep dans la littérature de voyage européenne pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918) Auteur : Olivier Salmon Préface par Hussein I. El-Mudarris Editeur : Dar al-Mudarris & Dar Mardin Publication : décembre 2011 (2e éd. 2016) Format : 21 x 29,7 cm, 3 tomes, 2123 pages, ill. noir et blanc et ill. couleur Cet ouvrage, résultat d’un travail de thèse de cinq années, établit un corpus de plus de quatre cents voyageurs et auteurs européens, passés ou non par Alep pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918), dont les œuvres évoquant la métropole syrienne relèvent de la littérature de voyage. Centre économique, religieux et culturel, situé à la croisée des routes entre l...
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that they navigate the liminal and layered forms of colonialism which impede the freedom of the island, including the residues of British imperialism, the impact of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, and the ethnolinguistic border between north and south. This study puts pressure on the postcolonial discipline by evaluating the unique hegemonic relationship Cyprus has with three metropolitan centres, not one. The print languages associated with each centre (English, Greek, and Turkish) are complicit in neo-colonial activity. Contemporary Cypriot writers address this in order to resist sectarian division and grapple with their deferred postcoloniality.
