Literature and the War on Terror : Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation

著者名：Ali, Sk Sagir (EDT)

Routledge India（2023/02/14発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032348544
• eISBN：9781000829709

Description

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures, and how they enable us to rethink the ‘trauma of familiarity’, post-traumatic heterotopias, religious extremism and the idea of the ‘neighbour’ in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion, popular media, televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’, the languages of grief, religionisation of terrorism, islamophobia, religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror.

An essential read, the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies, media studies, politics, film studies and South Asian studies.

Table of Contents

 

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction: Surveying the Frontiers of Home, Democracy and Belonging in the Literature of War on Terror

Sk Sagir Ali

 

Part I: Cartographies of Otherness and Strategic Outsiderism in Post 9/11 fictions

1)   “An Extravagant and Wheeling Stranger”–Encountering the Muslim as the Neighbour

Shinjini Basu

 

2) Rewriting the American Narrative of Muslim Men: Ayad Akhtar’s Depiction of Race, Gender, and Masculinity

 

Nalini Iyer

 

3) “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 

 

4) Sinhala Budhist Nationalism and Shrinking Space for Muslims in Sri Lanka: The Post Tamil Elam War and 9/11 Situation

 Rajeesh CS

 

5) The Making of Xenophobia: Migrating from Hatred to Grief in the Novels of Mohsin Hamid

 Debamitra Kar

 

6) Pax Americana! : American Exceptionalism and Salman Rushdie’s Language of State            Shayeari Dutta

Part II: Reconfiguring the Contours of Home, Belonging, and the Rights of Conditional Citizenship in Post 9/11 Novels

 

7) Imagining Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other

Dangerous Pursuits and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies

 Sk Sagir Ali

 

8)  Globalization, Islamic Machine, and “Critical Localism” in the Aftermath of 9/11

 Mosarrap Hossain Khan

 

9) War, Terror and Migration: Hamid’s Exit West as a Cosmopolitan Novel

 Faisal Nazir

 

Part III: Popular Imagination and the Ideological Representational Apparatus of Western Media and Culture in Post 9/11 Climate

 

10) Tribute in Light: Memory (Re)Placed

Pinaki De

 

11) The Radical Sadness of Late-Night Television: The Comedy Talk Show in the Shadow of 9/11

Sudipto Sanyal and  Somnath Basu

 

12) 9/11 and the Supervillain Crisis: A Study of the ‘Terrorist Villain’ and Terrorism in select MCU films

Rohan Hassan

 

13) Post 9/11 Digital Martyrdom – Digital Ephemera of Ireland and Digital Protest Movement of Bangladesh

Kusumita Datta

 

Part IV: Locating “Other” Lives and the Unmappable Registers of Precarity in 9/11 Novels

14) Possible Lives, Impossible Times:The Tragic Queer Diasporic Muslim in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles

Anil Pradhan

 

15) You are My Creator, but I am Your Master” : A Reading of Frankenstein in Baghdad as a Postcolonial Pharmakon

Avijit Basak

 

16) The Trauma of Familiarity: A Very Brief Overview of British-Muslim Writings in the Post 9/11 UK

Pinaki Roy

 

Index