Rehumanizing Muslim subjectivities : postcolonial geographies, postcolonial ethics / Aroosa Kanwal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanwal, Aroosa, 1974- author.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oriental fiction (English)--Muslim authors--History and criticism.

Oriental fiction (English).

Oriental fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Oriental fiction.

Muslims in literature.

Victims of political violence in literature.

Justice in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

169 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"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 will be the chapters on fictional representations by 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : "What is a human without humanity?"

Bodies that don't count : horrorism and the politics of invisibility in Kashmir

Dreaming with drones : Palestine under the shadow of unseen war

No turning back : dehumanization and de-subjectification of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and asylum seekers

Thanatopolitics of the more-than-human : slow violence and forensic ecologies of Pakistani Tribal Areas

Rethinking postcolonial ethics : incarcerations and future of Myanmar Muslims

Uyghurs : a genocide in the making.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kanwal, Aroosa, 1974- Rehumanizing Muslim subjectivities

ISBN:

9781032008844

1032008849

9781032678467

1032678461

OCLC:

1393078181