عنوان

Senses of Vulnerability:

شماره

TL8pv6q49z

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Senses of Vulnerability:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Magearu, Alexandra

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Gender, Embodiment, and Dis-Orientation from the Algerian War to the War in Iraq

نام ساير پديدآوران

Boscagli, Maurizia; Reynolds, Dwight

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

UC Santa Barbara

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

UC Santa Barbara

امتياز متن

2018

متن يادداشت

Senses of Vulnerability makes a contribution to postcolonial feminism and literary criticism by developing a feminist politics of the senses and by redefining the relationship between vulnerability and resistance as part of an extended reading of creative works emerging from transnational and transhistorical contexts such as the Algerian War, the "War on Terror," and the War in Iraq. I propose an exploration of feminist phenomenology, in particular the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Sara Ahmed, Alia Al-Saji, and Judith Butler, in relation to Francophone and Anglophone literary and cultural productions by Arab, Amazigh, and/or Muslim women such as Assia Djebar, Yamina Mechakra, Leila Aboulela, Mohja Kahf, Riverbend, Mona Haydar, and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh. The project deconstructs hegemonic appropriations of the notion of vulnerability, such as in the instrumentalization of Muslim women's rights in the service of imperial wars, and aims to shift conversations about vulnerability towards critical engagements with socially and politically induced forms of precarity and resistance at the intersection of colonial, patriarchal, and neo-colonial systems of power. Because the political life of the senses is crucial in this context, I explore the defamiliarization of the Islamophobic gaze, subaltern orality, the traumatic effects of sexualized torture and bodily pain, proprioceptive diasporic displacement, and the disorientation produced by gendered racialization in Arab, Amazigh, and/or Muslimwomen's work. While acknowledging the embodied trauma and the social and affective consequences of experiences of racialization, this project also aims to foreground concrete poetic modes of dis-orientation employed by Arab, Amazigh, and/or Muslim women to counter, disengage, and shatter culturally racist, misogynist, and Islamophobic practices. Disorientation, in Mohja Kahf's understanding, is an aesthetic and political approach to creative work that undoes the Orientalist habits of seeing and the Eurocentric epistemological assumptions inherent in moments of gendered racialization and, more generally, in Islamophobic forms of representation.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Magearu, Alexandra

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Boscagli, Maurizia; Reynolds, Dwight

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

UC Santa Barbara

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y