Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction: Terropolitics- Colonial and Neo-Imperial Legacies Part I. Post-Declaration and the Transatlantic White Empire1. The US War on Terror: Re-imag(in)ing Women and Imperial Governance Part II. Post-Declaration and the Regional Predicament2. Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel: Gendering Refugee Narratives of Terrorism 3. Colonial/Neo-Colonial Dictatorships: MaghrebWomens Horror Stories Part III. The Post-Declaration Nation-State4. Caste Violence in India: Writing Dalit Womens Terrorized Lives 5. Inheriting Terror: South African Women and Post-Al³Ñ