Literature and the War on Terror : nation, democracy and liberalisation / edited by Sk Sagir Ali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ali, Sk. Sagir, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.

Muslims in literature.

Literature and society--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Sk Sagir Ali is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism, Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys and the monograph Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming).

Contents:

Introduction: Surveying the frontiers of home, democracy and belonging in the literature of war on terror / Sk Sagir Ali

Cartographies of otherness and strategic outsiderism in post 9/11 fictions. "An extravagant and wheeling stranger"

encountering the Muslim as the neighbor / Shinjini Basu

Rewriting the American narrative of Muslim men: Ayad Akhtar's depiction of race, gender, and masculinity / Nalini Iyer

"There is no Israel for me": je suis Charlie, the ends of the French Republic, and the laicistic contours of Islamophobic dystopia in Michel Houellebecq's Submission / Swayamdipta Das

Sinhala Budhist nationalism and shrinking space for Muslims in Sri Lanka: the post Tamil Elam War and 9/11 situation / Rajeesh CS

The making of xenophobia: migrating from hatred to grief in the novels of Mohsin Hamid / Debamitra Kar

Pax Americana!: American exceptionalism and Salman Rushdie's language of state / Shayeari Dutta

Reconfiguring the contours of home, belonging, and the rights of conditional citizenship in post 9/11 novels. Imagining citizenship, democracy and belonging in Laila Lalami's Hope and other dangerous pursuits and Ayad Akhtar's Homeland elegies / Sk Sagir Ali

Globalization, Islamic machine, and "critical localism" in the aftermath of 9/11 / Mosarrap Hossain Khan

War, terror and migration: Hamid's Exit west as a cosmopolitan novel / Faisal Nazir

Popular imagination and the ideological representational apparatus of Western media and culture in post 9/11 climate. Tribute in light: memory (re)placed / Pinaki De

The radical sadness of late-night television: the comedy talk show in the shadow of 9/11 / Sudipto Sanyal and Somnath Basu

9/11 and the supervillain crisis: a study of the 'terrorist villain 'and terrorism in select MCU films / Rohan Hassan

Post 9/11 digital martyrdom

digital ephemera of Ireland and digital protest movement of Bangladesh / Kusumita Datta

Locating "other" lives and the unmappable registers of precarity in 9/11 novels. Possible lives, impossible times:the tragic queer diasporic Muslim in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla's The exiles / Anil Pradhan

"You are my creator, but I am your master": a reading of Frankenstein in Baghdad as a postcolonial Pharmakon / Avijit Basak

The trauma of familiarity: a very brief overview of British-Muslim writings in the post 9/11 UK / Pinaki Roy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Literature and the War on Terror

ISBN:

9781003362999

1003362990

9781000829594

1000829596

9781000829709

1000829707

Publisher Number:

40031553087

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