Deb Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-63210-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine, Guatemala, India, Algeria, and South Africa. It draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography, films, music, interdisciplinary arts, media/new media, and activism, joining the larger conversation about human rights by addressing the problem of a pervasive public misunderstanding of terrorism conditioned by a foreign and domestic policy perspective. Deb provides an alternative understanding of terrorism as revolutionary dissent against injustice through a postcolonial/transnational lens. The volume brings counter-terror narratives into dialogue with ideologies of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion, addressing the situation of women as both perpetrators and targets of torture, and the possibilities of a dialogue between feminist and queer politics to confront securitized regimes of torture. This book explores the relationship in which social and cultural texts stand with respect to legacies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in a world of transnational feminist solidarities against postcolonial wars on terror.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deb, Basuli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Terropolitics- Colonial and Neo-Imperial Legacies Part I. Post-Declaration and the Transatlantic White Empire 1. The US War on Terror: Re-imag(in)ing Women and Imperial Governance Part II. Post-Declaration and the Regional Predicament 2. Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel: Gendering Refugee Narratives of Terrorism 3. Colonial/Neo-Colonial Dictatorships: Maghreb Women’s "Horror" Stories Part III. The Post-Declaration Nation-State 4. Caste Violence in India: Writing Dalit Women’s Terrorized Lives 5. Inheriting Terror: South African Women and Post-Apartheid Fictions 6. Counterinsurgency Terror in Guatemala: An Indigenous Woman’s Testimonials Conclusion: Re-Thinking Transnationally- Beyond State and Region Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

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