South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11

Masks of Threat

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1252-7 (ISBN)

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How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This collection delves into the underpinnings of American imperialism and identity politics after 9/11.

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.

Aparajita De is assistant professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia

Introduction - South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat
Aparajita De
1.Remembering the Air India Tragedy in an Age of Terror
Chandrima Chakraborty
2.Sexy Sammy and Red Rosie? From Burning Books to the War on Terror
John Hutnyk
3.Managing Race, Class, and Gender: Atlanta’s South Asian American Muslims and the Localized Management of the ‘Global war on Terror’
Stanley Thangaraj
4.‘The city’s changed’: Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Post 9/11 Urban Experience
Hasan al Zayed
5.Between Performativity and Representation: Post 9/11 Muslim Masculinity in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
Lopamudra Basu
6.‘Sikhs aren’t Terrorists, those Arabs are’: Examining Solidarity along Racial and Generational Lines in Sharat Raju’s American Made
Sarah Wahab
7.Terror Narratives: Art, Music and the post 9/11 Surveillance Culture
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Epilogue - Racialization and Resistance: The Double Bind of Post-9/11 Brown
Nitasha Sharma

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2016
Co-Autor	Hasan Al Zayed, Lopamudra Basu, Chandrima Chakraborty, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-1252-6 / 1498512526
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-1252-7 / 9781498512527
Zustand	Neuware