How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This collection delves into the underpinnings of American imperialism and identity politics after 9/11.
"How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This collection delves into the underpinnings of American imperialism and identity politics after 9/11"--Provided by publisher
Introduction: South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11 : Masks of Threat / Aparajita De -- Remembering the Air India Tragedy in an Age of Terror / Chandrima Chakraborty -- Sexy Sammy and Red Rosie? : From Burning Books to the War on Terror / John Hutnyk -- Managing Race, Class, and Gender : Atlanta's South Asian American Muslims and the Localized Management of the "Global War on Terror" / Stanley Thangaraj -- "The city's changed" : Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Post 9/11 Urban Experience / Hasan al Zayed -- Between Performativity and Representation : Post 9/11 Muslim Masculinity in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced / Lopamudra Basu -- "Sikhs aren't Terrorists, those Arabs are" : Examining Solidarity along Racial and Generational Lines in Sharat Raju's American Made / Sarah Wahab -- Terror Narratives : Art, Music and the post 9/11 Surveillance Culture / Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt -- Epilogue: Racialization and Resistance : The Double Bind of Post-9/11 Brown / Nitasha Sharma
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