Virile Turks and Maiden Ireland: Gender and National Identity in Early Modern English Travel Literature

Autor:	Anna Suranyi
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	History Geography Planning and Development Tribute Gender studies Geopolitics Colonialism language.human_language Gender Studies Politics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Irish National identity language Narrative Sociology Early Modern English
Zdroj:	Gender & History. 21:241-262
ISSN:	1468-0424 0953-5233
DOI:	10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01547.x
Popis:	This article examines the role of gender in depictions of national identity in early modern English travel literature. I show that human sexual relationships were believed to be echoed in relations between territories, which were often represented as masculine or feminine. Travellers used metaphors representing marriage, seduction and rape to describe geopolitical relationships, including colonialism, tribute payments and rebellion. Representations of Ireland and the Irish, and the Ottoman Empire and the Turks are among the most revealing. I argue that such metaphors were especially favoured by travel writers because gender was believed to be inherently mutable, thus providing a variety of easily understood and mutually accepted narratives to describe international political relationships.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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