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originality of their accounts in their prefaces to provide a reassurance for American middle class readership of their preference of their works over the English whereas Haight’s notice is apologetic and reticent about her motivations for publication. This paper seeks to scrutinize the agency of American authorship in the only travel narrative of the Ottoman Empire by an American woman published in the Antebellum period in the United States. The significance of the geographical denotation is the habitual discursive strategies applied when dealing with the Orient and to determine how Haight dealt with the conflicting notions of being and at the same time depicting the subaltern by “using the sense of sight to gain information is a classic male aristocratic technique, which avoids interaction or any kind of emotional or bodily engagement” which she could not partake in by virtue of being segmented along the gender identification lines at home and in her destination

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