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This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural
narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The
collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial,
political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to
terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection
examines South Asian American identities to understand culture,
policy making, and the implicit gendered racialization,
sexualization, and socio-economic classification of minority
identities within the discourse of globalization. The essays
included here relocate the discourse of race and cultural studies
to an examination of transnational labor diasporas, reopen debate
on critical constructions of U.S. racial and cultural formations,
and question the reconfiguration of gendered and sexualized
discourses of the South Asian diaspora within the context of
national security and terrorism. This book provides a multifaceted
account of South Asian racialization and belonging by drawing from
disciplines across the humanities and the social sciences. The
scholars included here employ methods of ethnographic studies as
well as literary, culture, film, and feminist analysis to examine a
wide range of South Asian cultural sites: novels, short stories,
cultural texts, documentaries, and sports. The rich intellectual,
theoretical, methodological, and narrative tapestry of South Asians
that emerges from this inquiry enables us to trace new patterns of
South Asian cultural consumption post-9/11 as well as expand
notions and histories of "terror." This volume makes an important
contribution to renewing scholarship in the key areas of
representations of race, labor, diaspora, class, and culture while
implicating that there needs to be a simultaneous and critical
dialogue on the scope and reconnections within postcolonial
studies.
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11:
Homeland Insecurity examines playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar's
contributions to multiple genres including film and theatre. This
book situates Akhtar's oeuvre within the social and political
context of post-9/11 American culture, marked by the creation of
the Homeland Security State and the racialization of Muslims,
Arabs, and South Asians. It departs from many traditional studies
of 9/11 literature by challenging the binary of victim and
perpetrator and examining the continuing impact of the event on
questions of American nationalism and belonging. Tracing a literary
genealogy for Akhtar, it explores a broad range of issues
represented in Akhtar's works such as globalization, the decline of
American industry, terrorism, torture, generational conflicts,
interracial love, gender and violence, the conflict between secular
and religious values-all issues which affect American nationalism
both within and outside the nation's borders, and shape the lives
of South Asian American Muslims. Employing the lenses of trauma
studies, transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, and
performance studies, this book is attentive to the controversial
reception of Akhtar's works and the paucity of authentic
representation of Muslim Americans. It combines literary
interpretations of Akhtar's works with sociological analysis of
post-9/11 racial formation, a personal interview with Akhtar, and
observations of plays and post-play discussions.
This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural
narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The
collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial,
political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to
terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection
examines South Asian American identities to understand culture,
policy making, and the implicit gendered racialization,
sexualization, and socio-economic classification of minority
identities within the discourse of globalization. The essays
included here relocate the discourse of race and cultural studies
to an examination of transnational labor diasporas, reopen debate
on critical constructions of U.S. racial and cultural formations,
and question the reconfiguration of gendered and sexualized
discourses of the South Asian diaspora within the context of
national security and terrorism. This book provides a multifaceted
account of South Asian racialization and belonging by drawing from
disciplines across the humanities and the social sciences. The
scholars included here employ methods of ethnographic studies as
well as literary, culture, film, and feminist analysis to examine a
wide range of South Asian cultural sites: novels, short stories,
cultural texts, documentaries, and sports. The rich intellectual,
theoretical, methodological, and narrative tapestry of South Asians
that emerges from this inquiry enables us to trace new patterns of
South Asian cultural consumption post-9/11 as well as expand
notions and histories of "terror." This volume makes an important
contribution to renewing scholarship in the key areas of
representations of race, labor, diaspora, class, and culture while
implicating that there needs to be a simultaneous and critical
dialogue on the scope and reconnections within postcolonial
studies.
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