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My paper explores the depiction of female sexuality in a series of English texts featuring an oriental empress called Roxana or Roxolana. Roxane, as Katie Trumpener has dubbed this composite figure, draws together aspects of the Persian first wife of Alexander the Great (Roxana), and a Ukranian-born slave (Roxolana) who, in the sixteenth century, became the first woman to marry an Ottoman sultan. Feminist literary scholars have shown that what links the various English Roxanes to one another is their common association with a heightened, politicized mode of femininity (Trumpener), maternal jealousy (Nussbaum), or heterosexual seduction as performance (Ballaster). I …
