Literary and non-literary responses towards 9/11 : South Asia and beyond / edited by Nukhbah Taj Langah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langah, Nukhbah Taj, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

South Asian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

South Asian literature.

History.

South Asia--History--21st century.

South Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 194 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of its literary, non-literary and cultural representations. It examines the ways in which this event has shaped and complicated the relationship between various national and religious identities in contemporary world history. Unlike earlier studies on the topic, this work reconciles both eclectic and pragmatic approaches by analyzing the stereotypes of nationhood and identities as also by questioning theoretical concepts in the context of latest political developments. The chapters focus on discourses, themes, imagery and symbolism from across fiction and non-fiction, films, art, music, and political movements. The volume addresses complexities arising within different local contexts (e.g., Hunza and state development); surveys broader frameworks in South Asia (representation of Muslims in Bollywood films); and gauges international impact (US drone attacks in Islamic countries; treatment meted out to Muslims in Europe). It also connects these with relevant theory (e.g., Orientalism) and policy perspectives (e.g. Patriotic Act). The authors further discuss consequences for minorities and marginalization, cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism, clash of civilizations, fundamentalism, Islamization and post-9/11 'Islamophobia'. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, Islamic studies, literary criticism, political sociology, sociology and cultural studies, those in media and the interested general reader"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The discourse after 9/11 : cultural relativism vs. ethnocentrism / Kamal ud Din

Orientalist : friend or foe? / Charles Ramsey

Contrasts and reflections : critiques of 9/11 policies and reflections in English literature / Mobeena Shafqat

Why they hate us : the rise of fundamentalism after 9/11 / Debamitra Kar

Islamization and post-9/11 "Islamophobia" : "the power of genre" : a response from Pakistani writers / Nukhbah Taj Langah

Drones, state of exception and truck art / Muhammad Waqar Azeem

Bollywood audio-visual responses towards 9/11 through "Kurbaan" and "My name is Khan" / Halimah Mohamed Ali

Un-vanishing angularities : placing Pakistani Christians in third-millennium cultural texts / Madeline Clements

Visualizing Hunza post 9/11 : indeterminate state development / Julie Flowerday

Pakistan's traditional Muslim scholars and the West post-9/11 / Mashal Saif.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780815378440

0815378440

9780367074548

0367074540

OCLC:

1081372050

Publisher Number:

99980980780