Literature and the War on Terror

Sk Sagir Ali is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism, Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys and the monograph Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming).

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Introduction: Surveying the Frontiers of Home, Democracy and Belonging in the Literature of War on Terror

Sk Sagir Ali

Part I: Cartographies of Otherness and Strategic Outsiderism in Post 9/11 fictions

1) “An Extravagant and Wheeling Stranger”–Encountering the Muslim as the Neighbour

Shinjini Basu

2) Rewriting the American Narrative of Muslim Men: Ayad Akhtar’s Depiction of Race, Gender, and Masculinity

Nalini Iyer

3) “There is no Israel for Me”: Je Suis Charlie, the Ends of the French Republic, and the Laicistic Contours of Islamophobic Dystopia in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission.

Swayamdipta Das

4) Sinhala Budhist Nationalism and Shrinking Space for Muslims in Sri Lanka: The Post Tamil Elam War and 9/11 Situation

Rajeesh CS

5) The Making of Xenophobia: Migrating from Hatred to Grief in the Novels of Mohsin Hamid

Debamitra Kar

6) Pax Americana! : American Exceptionalism and Salman Rushdie’s Language of State Shayeari Dutta

Part II: Reconfiguring the Contours of Home, Belonging, and the Rights of Conditional Citizenship in Post 9/11 Novels

7) Imagining Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other

Dangerous Pursuits and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies

Sk Sagir Ali

8) Globalization, Islamic Machine, and “Critical Localism” in the Aftermath of 9/11

Mosarrap Hossain Khan

9) War, Terror and Migration: Hamid’s Exit West as a Cosmopolitan Novel

Faisal Nazir

Part III: Popular Imagination and the Ideological Representational Apparatus of Western Media and Culture in Post 9/11 Climate

10) Tribute in Light: Memory (Re)Placed

Pinaki De

11) The Radical Sadness of Late-Night Television: The Comedy Talk Show in the Shadow of 9/11

Sudipto Sanyal and Somnath Basu

12) 9/11 and the Supervillain Crisis: A Study of the ‘Terrorist Villain’ and Terrorism in select MCU films

Rohan Hassan

13) Post 9/11 Digital Martyrdom – Digital Ephemera of Ireland and Digital Protest Movement of Bangladesh

Kusumita Datta

Part IV: Locating “Other” Lives and the Unmappable Registers of Precarity in 9/11 Novels

14) Possible Lives, Impossible Times:The Tragic Queer Diasporic Muslim in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles

Anil Pradhan

15) You are My Creator, but I am Your Master” : A Reading of Frankenstein in Baghdad as a Postcolonial Pharmakon

Avijit Basak

16) The Trauma of Familiarity: A Very Brief Overview of British-Muslim Writings in the Post 9/11 UK

Pinaki Roy

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