Research Catalog

Title

Transnational feminist perspectives on terror in literature and culture / Basuli Deb.

Author

Deb, Basuli, 1970-

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2015.

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Details

Description

xix, 231 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. "--

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 36

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 36.

Subject

• Terrorism in literature
• Terrorism in mass media
• Women > Violence against
• Women and war
• Minorities > Violence against
• Terrorism
• Political violence
• International relations and terrorism
• Feminist theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Gendering 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-934

ISBN

• 9781138797512 (hbk)
• 1138797510 (hbk)
• 9781315757087 (ebk) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014023918

OCLC

881664607

Author

Deb, Basuli, 1970- author.

Title

Transnational feminist perspectives on terror in literature and culture / Basuli Deb.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 36

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 36.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-934