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This book is timely and urgent emphasizing the continued relevance of creative literature's potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “What is a Human without Humanity?”
Chapter 1: Bodies that don’t Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in Kashmir
Chapter 2: Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen War
Chapter 3: No Turning Back: Dehumanization and Desubjectification of Syrian
and Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekers
Chapter 4: Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and Forensic
Ecologies of Pakistani Tribal Areas
Chapter 5: Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future of
Myanmar Muslims
Chapter 6: Uyghurs: A Genocide in the Making
Index
About the author
Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International Women’s Studies, (US).
Summary
This book is timely and urgent emphasizing the continued relevance of creative literature’s potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination.
