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This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ways is information re framed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal discourses, the book charts possible—and unexpected—routes via which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks the reader to consider how they, themselves, embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so responsibly, with empathy and accountability.
Contents
Introduction: (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran ? Part I: The 'War on Terror' and Muslim Women: Subalternity and the Subject-Agent Chapter One: A Model of Remediated Witnessing: Theoretical and Affective Frameworks Chapter Two: Subalternity and the 'War on Terror': Configuring Agential and Subject(ed) Identities Chapter Three: Cover Girls: Sharbat Gula, Aisha Mohammadzai, and Malala Yousafzai ? Part II: Resistant Subjectivities: Dissidence, Martyrdom, and Mourning Chapter Four: Mothers of Martyrs: Grievability and Brokenness in the Iranian Graphic Novel Chapter Five: Over My Dead Body: Female Dissidence, Corporeal Testimony, and Fatal Agency Chapter Six: Literary, Visual, and Digital Afterlives: The Ethics of Exposure ? Postscript: Out of Frame
