Last week my latest scholarly essay was published in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies as part of a special double issue, "Genres of Empire" (Vol. 50, No. 2-3), which was guest edited by Alyssa Hunziker and Mitch Murray. The collection of essays in this special issue consider how the emerging canon of genre fiction engages with and problematizes contemporary matters of empire (such as colonization, settler colonialism, and neo-imperialism).
My essay, "(Mis)Reading in the Age of Terror: Promoting Racial Literacy through Counter-Colonial Narrative Resistance in the Post-9/11 Muslim Novel," examines two representative works of the post-9/11 Muslim novel, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land (2007) and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). I argue that these novels rewrite the history of the 9/11 tragedy from a position of counter-colonial resistance in order to denounce the post-9/11 US counterterror state's misinformed and damaging attempts to read the racialized Muslim body. To learn more, you can access the full special issue here, as well as my specific essay here.
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