Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

ISBN-13: 9781032008844 / Twarda / 2024 / 216 str.

Aroosa Kanwal

Opis

This book is timely and urgent emphasizing the continued relevance of creative literature’s potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination.

 

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “What is a Human without Humanity?”

Chapter 1:      Bodies that don’t Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in Kashmir

 

Chapter 2:      Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen War

 

Chapter 3:      No Turning Back: Dehumanization and De-subjectification of Syrian

 and Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekers

 

Chapter 4:      Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and Forensic

 Ecologies of Pakistani Tribal Areas

 

Chapter 5:      Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future of

                        Myanmar Muslims

 

Chapter 6:      Uyghurs: A Genocide in the Making

 

 

Index

O autorze

 

Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International  Women’s Studies, (US).