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Author Heffernan, Teresa, 1962- author.

Title Veiled figures : women, modernity, and the spectres of orientalism / Teresa Heffernan
Published Toronto : University Of Toronto Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : illustrations
Contents Islam, the Enlightenment, and the veil -- The great whore of Babylon: cosmopolitanism and racialized nationalism -- Two western women venture east: Lady Annie Brassey and Anna Bowman Dodd -- The Great War and its aftermath: militarized citizens, (un)veiled bodies, and the nation -- The burqa and the bikini: veiling and unveiling at the turn of the twenty-first century
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 women's 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, Heffernan's 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."-- Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 3, 2016)
Subject Veils in literature.
Veils -- Social aspects
Veils -- History
Muslim women in literature.
Islamic literature -- Christian interpretations.
Travel writing -- History and criticism
Women travelers -- Middle East -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Women travelers
Travel writing
Islamic literature -- Christian interpretations
Muslim women in literature
Veils
Veils in literature
Veils -- Social aspects
Middle East
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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