From Erasure to Expression: Aroosa Kanwal's Reinscription of Muslim Subjectivity and the Biopolitics of Being in Postcolonial Discourse Aroosa Kanwal, New York, Routledge, 2024, xii + 182 pp., £104.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781032008844
نوع المنشور
مراجعة كتاب
المؤلفون

The biopolitical exercise of power against ethnic minorities has dominated the scene ofphilosophical writing for many decades. Hegemonic practices are rooted in a colonial his-tory of violence, dehumanization, and genocidal action against marginalized nationalbodies that are constantly pushed outside the sphere of political and cultural representa-tion. The manipulation of discourse, space, and bodies by colonial forces implies that aresponse to physical brutality and cultural exclusion becomes a sacred intellectual andscholarly mission that Aroosa Kanwal’s book succinctly and persuasively adopts. In herinsightful contribution to the subjective formation of Muslim identities in postcolonialcommunities and geographies, Kanwal touches upon a critical question that has enduredimperial scrutiny and its technological surveillance for years; that is, re-framing the deeplyburied agency of the rehumanized Muslim subjects via literary production and creativeinvention.

المجلة
العنوان
Middle East Critique
الناشر
Taylor and Francis
بلد الناشر
المملكة المتحدة
Indexing
Thomson Reuters
معامل التأثير
1,5
نوع المنشور
إلكتروني فقط
المجلد
34
السنة
2025
الصفحات
563-568