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001 2014023918
003 DLC
005 20150512085115.0
008 140812s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014023918
020 $a9781138797512 (hbk)
020 $z9781315757087 (ebk)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN56.T45$bD43 2015
082 00 $a809/.933552$223
084 $aLIT003000$aLIT004220$aPOL037000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDeb, Basuli,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 10 $aTransnational feminist perspectives on terror in literature and culture /$cBasuli Deb.
264 1 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2015.
300 $axix, 231 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;$v36
505 0 $aGendering the Politics of Terror -- The US War on Terror: Queerness, Imperial Women, and their "Sister" Outsiders -- Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel: Gendering Refugee Narratives of Terrorism -- Counterinsurgency Terror in Guatemala: An Indigenous Woman's Testimonials -- Caste Violence in India and its British Heritage: Writing Dalit Women's Terrorized Lives -- French Colonial Dictatorships and Postcolonial Algeria: Horror Stories by Women -- Inheriting Terror: South African Women, Post-Apartheid Fictions, and Queer Politics -- Conclusion.
520 $a"This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine, Guatemala, India, Algeria, and South Africa. It draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography, films, music, interdisciplinary arts, media/new media, and activism, joining the larger conversation about human rights by addressing the problem of a pervasive public misunderstanding of terrorism conditioned by a foreign and domestic policy perspective. Deb provides an alternative understanding of terrorism as revolutionary dissent against injustice through a postcolonial/transnational lens. The volume brings counter-terror narratives into dialogue with ideologies of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion, addressing the situation of women as both perpetrators and targets of torture, and the possibilities of a dialogue between feminist and queer politics to confront securitized regimes of torture. This book explores the relationship in which social and cultural texts stand with respect to legacies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in a world of transnational feminist solidarities against postcolonial wars on terror. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aTerrorism in literature.
650 0 $aTerrorism in mass media.
650 0 $aWomen$xViolence against.
650 0 $aWomen and war.
650 0 $aMinorities$xViolence against.
650 0 $aTerrorism.
650 0 $aPolitical violence.
650 0 $aInternational relations and terrorism.
650 0 $aFeminist theory.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism.$2bisacsh