Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367870539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Basuli Deb

Opis

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror. Deb draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography, film, music, media, and activism, joining the larger conversation about human rights by addressing the pervasive public misunderstanding of terrorism conditioned by a foreign and domestic poli

Spis treści

Introduction: Gendering the Politics of Terror  1. The US War on Terror: Queerness, Imperial Women, and their "Sister" Outsiders  2. Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel: Gendering Refugee Narratives of Terrorism  3. Counterinsurgency Terror in Guatemala: An Indigenous Woman’s Testimonials  4. Caste Violence in India and its British Heritage: Writing Dalit Women’s Terrorized Lives  5. French Colonial Dictatorships and Postcolonial Algeria: Horror Stories by Women  6. Inheriting Terror: South African Women, Post-Apartheid Fictions, and Queer Politics  Conclusion

O autorze

Basuli Deb is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US.