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Memoirs of Halide Edib: New Introduction by Hulya Adak

Book information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9781463210090
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37601495 bytes)
Pages
560\555
Time added
2023-05-29 00:28:51

Description

A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Edib Adivar (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, while she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-party regime. Edib describes her childhood, her confrontation with her first husband's polygyny, her divorce, and her entry into political and literary writing. Edib's account of her private life provides a unique example of a woman's individual and personal struggle for emancipation and gender equality.

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