(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran: Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media PDF
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“(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran explores the reframing of the witnessed event in visual culture, fc- tion, and digital media. In the book, Rachel Gregory Fox showcases her exceptionally strong theoretical and interdisciplinary research into liter- ary and cultural studies. Her emphasis on counter- stereotypical depic- tions of and by women from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran from 2000 to the present has an urgent decolonising agenda. Intersectionality as a lens is also crucial to Gregory Fox, and she p ersuasively shows the the- ory’s shifting parameters and ongoing relevance. (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran is therefore complex work, designed not just to make you think but to inspire action.” Claire Chambers, Professor of Global Literature, University of York, UK “Could there be a timelier book than (Re)Framing Women in Post- Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran? It asks us to look carefully at how we view the experience of women in contemporary Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran and offers a complex account of how the experience of ‘Muslim’ women has been shaped. Gregory Fox calls for better, more honest witnessing that can soften our perspective and allow us to locate resistance in the most elusive of spaces.” Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, UK (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of liter- ary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distri- bution. In what ways is information reframed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal discourses, the book charts possible—and unexpected—routes via which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks the reader to con- sider how they, themselves, embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so responsibly, with empathy and accountability. Rachel Gregory Fox is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Uni- versity of Kent whose research project focuses on migration, the UK’s Hostile Environment, and the ethics of storytelling. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the feld. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in pre- viously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney On Literary Attachment in South Africa Tough Love Michael Chapman Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World Edited by Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction Dorothee Klein (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media Rachel Gregory Fox The Postcolonial Indian City Literature, Policy, Politics and Evolution Dibyakusum Ray For more information on this series, please visit https://www.routledge. com/Routledge-Research-in-Postcolonial-Literatures/book-series/ SE0404 (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media Rachel Gregory Fox First published 2022 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 Rachel Gregory Fox The right of Rachel Gregory Fox to be identifed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-45973-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-21802-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-27007-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003270072 Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra For Alan For all the words we share Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgements xii Introduction: (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran 1 PART I The ‘War on Terror’ and Muslim Women: Subalternity and the Subject-Agent 21 1 A Model of Remediated Witnessing: Theoretical and Affective Frameworks 23 2 Subalternity and the ‘War on Terror’: Confguring Agential and Subject(ed) Identities 44 3 Cover Girls: Sharbat Gula, Aisha Mohammadzai, and Malala Yousafzai 67 PART II Resistant Subjectivities: Dissidence, Martyrdom, and Mourning 93 4 Mothers of Martyrs: Grievability and Brokenness in the Iranian Graphic Novel 95 5 Over My Dead Body: Female Dissidence, Corporeal Testimony, and Fatal Agency 123
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