Una voz del esteMaría Theresa Asmar, "Memoirs of a Babylonian princess"

  1. Pérez Alonso, María Isabel 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Book:
Las inéditas: voces femeninas más allá del silencio
  1. Romano, Yolanda (coord.)
  2. Velázquez García, Sara (coord.)

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-9012-887-9

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 719-731

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

The Assyrian-Chaldean writer Maria Theresa Asmar (1804-1870) wrote in 1844 Memoirs of a Babilonian princess. Halfway between travel literature, autobiographical narration and memoirs, remains in oblivion outside the Aramaic academic. Theresa offers us a view from within the Ottoman Empire in the complex end of the nineteenth century. Born in a Christian family, Theresa opens the doors to a world she knows from within. She focuses on the situation of her people and women. In Europe, she began a struggle to improve the education of women in the region, facing the leaders of her community and the Eurocentric vision of the Middle East.

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