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• W284015706 abstract "Galina Yermolenko, ed. Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2010; pp. xvi + 318. $114.95 cloth. Review by BINDU MALIECKAL, SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE. In popular imagination, Ottoman harem, or any harem for that matter, is depicted as an exotic and orientalized realm where women are beautiful, mysterious, and experts in art of seduction. Fortunately, recent scholarship has not succumbed to such objectification, especially since 1993 publication of Leslie Pierce's groundbreaking The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in Ottoman Empire, in which Pierce painstakingly pieces together impressive lives of Ottoman women within and beyond seraglio. Far from being voiceless victims, Ottoman women were indeed, as eighteenth-century Englishwoman Mary Wortley Montagu pronounced, during her travels in Turkey, the only free people in empire. As Pierce elucidates in her book, if an Ottoman woman gained Sultan's favor and bore his successor, she could become sultan, a position of great authority and influence in harem and at court. During early modern period, a series of successive valide sultans, by virtue of not being native Turks, seemed predisposed to forging Ottoman relations with West. These women included Hurrem (also called Roxelana or Roxolana), wife of Suleyman I (r.1520-1566); Nurbanu, wife of Selim II (r.1566-1574); and Safiye, valide sultan of Murad III (r.1574-1595). Of these three women, Hurrem in particular captured European imagination and is mentioned in numerous texts, although, arguably, Nurbanu and Safiye's interventions led to more significant benefits for Ottomans as well as Europeans. Nurbanu was responsible for Venice's special access at Ottoman court (she herself being either a Venetian or Cypriot), and Safiye carried on a personal correspondence with England's Queen Elizabeth I, at one point sending Elizabeth a Turkish dress and image of herself, with Elizabeth requesting cosmetics in exchange. Bernadette Andrea's 2007 monograph, Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature, is an excellent follow-up to Pierce in its development of Anglo-Ottoman relationship, especially in terms of women's agency. Hurrem may have not been as involved in diplomacy as Nurbanu and Safiye, but she was certainly politically astute--for instance, she was thought to have masterminded death of Suleyman's oldest son Mustapha to make way for her own offspring--not to mention that Hurrem was an inspiration for writers of both fiction and nonfiction, these writers having heard news of Hurrem's manipulations, Suleyman's partiality towards her, and seeming incongruity of a white, Christian-born woman's elite presence in lands of infidel Turk. Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture, edited by Galina Yermolenko, is much-needed and much-appreciated, since, given Hurrem's stature in European discourses, book bestows Hurrem with attention she deserves and does so in a complete way, presenting various perspectives on Roxolana: volume contains scholarly essays, primary texts, illustrations, detailed appendices, and an extensive bibliography. Students in university-level courses that focus on representation of Ottomans and gender politics in early modern world will find Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture very useful and even necessary for future research and analysis of figure of Roxolana. …" @default.
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