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This book critically examines the representational politics of
women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a
range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the
conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates
the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and
reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and
(re)distribution. In what ways is information reframed? The
chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes
via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a
range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have
been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal
discourses, the book charts possible—and unexpected—routes via
which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks
the reader to consider how they, themselves, embody the role of
witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so
responsibly, with empathy and accountability.
This book critically examines the representational politics of
women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a
range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the
conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates
the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and
reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and
(re)distribution. In what ways is information reframed? The
chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes
via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a
range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have
been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal
discourses, the book charts possible-and unexpected-routes via
which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks
the reader to consider how they, themselves, embody the role of
witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so
responsibly, with empathy and accountability.
Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts
how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and
resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in
the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and temporal
dispossession; and the continued deterioration of the peace
process. Insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial
contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing
anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the
dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this
collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and
retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful
present. The collection offers a distinctive contribution to the
field of existing scholarship on Palestine, charting new ways of
thinking about the critical paradigms of memory and resistance as
they are produced and represented in literary works published
within the post-millennial period. Reflecting on the potential for
the Palestinian narrative to recreate reality in ways that both
document it and resist its brutality, the critical essays in this
collection show how Palestinian writers in the twenty-first century
critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their
nation.
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