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Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Autor Aroosa Kanwal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2025
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure. Most importantly, the book emphasizes 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. The book makes a substantial theoretical contribution by drawing on wide-ranging angles and dimensions of contemporary drone warfare and its related catastrophes, postcolonial ethics in relation to the thanatopolitics of slow violence, dehumanization and the politics of death. Against the backdrop of such institutionalized and diverse acts of violence committed against Muslim communities, I call the postcolonial Muslim world ‘geographies of dehumanization’. The book investigates how ongoing legacies of contemporary forms of injustice and denial of subjecthood are represented, staged and challenged in a range of postcolonial anglophone Muslim texts, thereby questioning the idea of postcolonial ethics. One of the selling points of this book is the chapters on fictional representations by Muslim Myanmar and Uyghur writers as, to the best of my knowledge, no critical work or single authored book is available on Myanmar and Uyghur literature to date.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032678467
ISBN-10: 1032678461
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

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 Desubjectification 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

Notă biografică

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).

Recenzii

In Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities, Kanwal (Quaid-e-Azam Univ., Pakistan) dissects ongoing major global human tragedies, such as unimpeded genocide, torture, violence, and discrimination in China, Iraq, Kashmir, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Palestine. The author confronts the international community’s utter silence and exposes its rare lip service to systemic victimization, dehumanization, body-crushing, and total annihilation of Muslim communities. Deploying various critical theoretical approaches, Kanwal’s book highlights the overlooked literary works of writers who, in their turn, arduously endeavor to make visible the agony of the invisible and give voice to the voiceless. Kanwal shares key narratives from plays, novels, autobiographies, reportage, and diaries, and deftly conducts a contextualized analysis of critical themes: citizenship, refugees, asylum, camps/encampments, human rights, dispossession, loss (including mourning non-human structures), violence, and the de-subjectification of refugees and their traumas. The uniqueness of this book lies in its effort to accentuate creative writing by Muslim authors, from the Rohingya people in Myanmar to the Uyghur community in China. The writers share a personal stake in their experience of dehumanization enterprises and tell their own harrowing stories. Learned and stylistically accessible, this book serves as an important reference for postcolonial, ethnic, and cultural studies.
--H. Bahri, The City University of New York, York College

Descriere

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.