This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of its literary, non-literary and cultural representations. It examines the ways in which this event has shaped and complicated the relationship between various national and religious identities in contemporary world history. ,
This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of its literary, non-literary and cultural representations. It examines the ways in which this event has shaped and complicated the relationship between various national and religious identities in contemporary world history. ,
Nukhbah Taj Langah is Associate Professor of English and Dean of Humanities, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan. She specializes in contemporary resistance literature from South Asia. Her publications include Poetry as Resistance: Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan (2011) and Poems: Noshi Gillani (co-translated with Lavinia Greenlaw, 2008). She is a freelance translator, a political activist, and a proponent of interdisciplinary approaches in postcolonial studies through pedagogical approaches and academic research. She was selected as a Charles Wallace Fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies in 2018.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. PART I: Post-9/11 Clash of Civilizations 1. The Discourse after 9/11: Cultural Relativism vs. Ethnocentrism 2. Orientalist: Friend or Foe? PART II: Post-9/11 Literary Genres vs. Policies 3. Contrasts and Reflections: Critiques of 9/11 Policies and Reflections in English Literature 4. Why They Hate Us: The Rise of Fundamentalism After 9/11 5. Islamization and post-9/11 'Islamophobia': 'The Power of Genre' - a response from Pakistani writers. PART III: Bollywood, Drones and Images 6. Drones, State of Exception and Truck Art 7. Bollywood Audio-Visual Responses Towards 9/11 Through Kurbaan and My Name Is Khan. PART IV: Who else is marginalized? 8. Un-vanishing Angularities: placing Pakistani Christians in third-millennium Cultural Texts 9. Visualizing Hunza Post-9/11: Indeterminate State Development 10. Pakistan's Traditional Muslim Scholars and the West Post-9/11. Conclusion
Introduction. PART I: Post-9/11 Clash of Civilizations 1. The Discourse after 9/11: Cultural Relativism vs. Ethnocentrism 2. Orientalist: Friend or Foe? PART II: Post-9/11 Literary Genres vs. Policies 3. Contrasts and Reflections: Critiques of 9/11 Policies and Reflections in English Literature 4. Why They Hate Us: The Rise of Fundamentalism After 9/11 5. Islamization and post-9/11 'Islamophobia': 'The Power of Genre' - a response from Pakistani writers. PART III: Bollywood, Drones and Images 6. Drones, State of Exception and Truck Art 7. Bollywood Audio-Visual Responses Towards 9/11 Through Kurbaan and My Name Is Khan. PART IV: Who else is marginalized? 8. Un-vanishing Angularities: placing Pakistani Christians in third-millennium Cultural Texts 9. Visualizing Hunza Post-9/11: Indeterminate State Development 10. Pakistan's Traditional Muslim Scholars and the West Post-9/11. Conclusion
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