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Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History

by Didem Havlioglu
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780815635376
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: USD 24.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 336 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Poetry

The early modern Ottoman poet Mihrî Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles. Her poetry collection is among the earliest bodies of women's writing in the Middle East and Islamicate literature, providing an exceptional vantage point on intellectual history. With this volume, Havlioglu not only gives readers access to this rare text but also investigates the factors that allowed Mihri to survive and thrive despite her clear departure from the cultural norms of the time. Placing the poet in the context of her era and environment, Havlioglu finds that the poet's dramatic, masterful performance and subversiveness are the very reasons for her endurance and acclaim in intellectual history. Mihri Hatun performed in a way that embraced her marginal position as a woman and leveraged it to her advantage. Havlioglu's astute and nuanced portrait gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a woman poet in a highly gendered society and suggests that women have been part of intellectual history long before the modern period.

Didem Havlioglu is a lecturing fellow in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She has published numerous articles in such journals as the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, the Journal of Turkish Studies, and the Turkish Historical Review.

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