Background
Alban, Gillian Mary E. was born on December 12, 1951 in London, England. Arrived in Turkey, 1974. Daughter of Frederick Ernest and Eileen Elizabeth Wallbank.
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(Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine sna...)
Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women.
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Alban, Gillian Mary E. was born on December 12, 1951 in London, England. Arrived in Turkey, 1974. Daughter of Frederick Ernest and Eileen Elizabeth Wallbank.
Bachelor, Birmingham University, England, 1973. Master of Science, Aston University, Birmingham, 1993. Master of Arts, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1994.
Doctor of Philosophy, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001.
Teacher English Ted Ankara College, Turkey, 1974—1976, Uskudar American Academy, Istanbul, 1983—2006. Lecturer Bosphorus University, since 2003. Reader Tulsa Studies Women's Literature, Oklahoma, 2006.
(Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine sna...)
Married Toker Hasan Alban, December 21, 1974. Children: Gonca Guzide, Bilge Funda.