Overview
This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, across a range of literary, 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)distribution. In what ways is information reframed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan, Iranian, and Pakistani 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 consider how they, themselves, embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so responsibly, with empathy and accountability.
- | Author: Rachel Gregory Fox
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 198 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0367459736
- | ISBN-13: 9780367459734
