Literature and the War on Terror : nation, democracy and liberalisation /: nation, democracy and liberalisation. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sk Sagir Ali.
• Editors: Ali, Sk. Sagir
• 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 ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Subjects: 809.933581; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature; Muslims in literature; Literature and society -- History -- 21st century; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000829709; 9781000829594
• Related ISBNs: 9781032348544; 9781032424835
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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