Teresa Heffernan: 2 books
Veiled Figures
Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries.
In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations...
Post-Apocalyptic Culture
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse...