American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance
Keywords:
Demetra Vaka, nationalism, Ottoman Empire, imperial discourse, gender rolesAbstract
This article examines Demetra Vaka’s In the Shadow of Islam as a text shaped by nationalist and imperialist discourse. It argues that the novel employs romance conventions while reinforcing Western anxieties about the Ottoman Empire. The study highlights the transformation of female roles from domestic figures to nationalist agents.
(The abstract and keywords were prepared retrospectively for indexing purposes using AI-assisted tools and editorial review, based on the original article. They did not appear in the original publication.)
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