Veiled figures : women, modernity, and the spectres of orientalism / Teresa Heffernan.
"In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that womens bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion a...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University Of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Summary: | "In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that womens bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernans book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West." -- |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1442637234 9781442637238 |