Captive nights: From the Bosphorus to Gallipoli with Zabel Yessayan

Captive nights: From the Bosphorus to Gallipoli with Zabel Yessayan

This new collection of translations from Zabel Yessayan’s (1878 – 1943?) internationally renowned body of work presents three of her least-known and most revealing stories: Meliha Nuri Hanum, The Veil, and Enough! Written between 1914 and 1928, these works share a common theme of women – both Armenian and Turkish – struggling against adverse social, political, and cultural circumstances, as they also examine questions of identity and marginalization.

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