Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International Women’s Studies, (US).

In Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities, Kanwal (Quaid-e-Azam Univ., Pakistan) dissects ongoing major global human tragedies, such as unimpeded genocide, torture, violence, and discrimination in China, Iraq, Kashmir, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Palestine. The author confronts the international community’s utter silence and exposes its rare lip service to systemic victimization, dehumanization, body-crushing, and total annihilation of Muslim communities. Deploying various critical theoretical approaches, Kanwal’s book highlights the overlooked literary works of writers who, in their turn, arduously endeavor to make visible the agony of the invisible and give voice to the voiceless. Kanwal shares key narratives from plays, novels, autobiographies, reportage, and diaries, and deftly conducts a contextualized analysis of critical themes: citizenship, refugees, asylum, camps/encampments, human rights, dispossession, loss (including mourning non-human structures), violence, and the de-subjectification of refugees and their traumas. The uniqueness of this book lies in its effort to accentuate creative writing by Muslim authors, from the Rohingya people in Myanmar to the Uyghur community in China. The writers share a personal stake in their experience of dehumanization enterprises and tell their own harrowing stories. Learned and stylistically accessible, this book serves as an important reference for postcolonial, ethnic, and cultural studies.--H. Bahri, The City University of New York, York College

• Acknowledgments Introduction: “What is a Human without Humanity?”Chapter 1: Bodies that don’t Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in KashmirChapter 2: Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen WarChapter 3: No Turning Back: Dehumanization and Desubjectification of Syrianand Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekersChapter 4: Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and ForensicEcologies of Pakistani Tribal AreasChapter 5: Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future ofMyanmar MuslimsChapter 6: Uyghurs: A Genocide in the MakingIndex

Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International Women’s Studies, (US).

In Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities, Kanwal (Quaid-e-Azam Univ., Pakistan) dissects ongoing major global human tragedies, such as unimpeded genocide, torture, violence, and discrimination in China, Iraq, Kashmir, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Palestine. The author confronts the international community’s utter silence and exposes its rare lip service to systemic victimization, dehumanization, body-crushing, and total annihilation of Muslim communities. Deploying various critical theoretical approaches, Kanwal’s book highlights the overlooked literary works of writers who, in their turn, arduously endeavor to make visible the agony of the invisible and give voice to the voiceless. Kanwal shares key narratives from plays, novels, autobiographies, reportage, and diaries, and deftly conducts a contextualized analysis of critical themes: citizenship, refugees, asylum, camps/encampments, human rights, dispossession, loss (including mourning non-human structures), violence, and the de-subjectification of refugees and their traumas. The uniqueness of this book lies in its effort to accentuate creative writing by Muslim authors, from the Rohingya people in Myanmar to the Uyghur community in China. The writers share a personal stake in their experience of dehumanization enterprises and tell their own harrowing stories. Learned and stylistically accessible, this book serves as an important reference for postcolonial, ethnic, and cultural studies.--H. Bahri, The City University of New York, York College

• Acknowledgments Introduction: “What is a Human without Humanity?”Chapter 1: Bodies that don’t Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in KashmirChapter 2: Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen WarChapter 3: No Turning Back: Dehumanization and Desubjectification of Syrianand Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekersChapter 4: Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and ForensicEcologies of Pakistani Tribal AreasChapter 5: Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future ofMyanmar MuslimsChapter 6: Uyghurs: A Genocide in the MakingIndex

Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International Women’s Studies, (US).

In Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities, Kanwal (Quaid-e-Azam Univ., Pakistan) dissects ongoing major global human tragedies, such as unimpeded genocide, torture, violence, and discrimination in China, Iraq, Kashmir, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Palestine. The author confronts the international community’s utter silence and exposes its rare lip service to systemic victimization, dehumanization, body-crushing, and total annihilation of Muslim communities. Deploying various critical theoretical approaches, Kanwal’s book highlights the overlooked literary works of writers who, in their turn, arduously endeavor to make visible the agony of the invisible and give voice to the voiceless. Kanwal shares key narratives from plays, novels, autobiographies, reportage, and diaries, and deftly conducts a contextualized analysis of critical themes: citizenship, refugees, asylum, camps/encampments, human rights, dispossession, loss (including mourning non-human structures), violence, and the de-subjectification of refugees and their traumas. The uniqueness of this book lies in its effort to accentuate creative writing by Muslim authors, from the Rohingya people in Myanmar to the Uyghur community in China. The writers share a personal stake in their experience of dehumanization enterprises and tell their own harrowing stories. Learned and stylistically accessible, this book serves as an important reference for postcolonial, ethnic, and cultural studies.--H. Bahri, The City University of New York, York College

• Acknowledgments Introduction: “What is a Human without Humanity?”Chapter 1: Bodies that don’t Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in KashmirChapter 2: Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen WarChapter 3: No Turning Back: Dehumanization and Desubjectification of Syrianand Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekersChapter 4: Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and ForensicEcologies of Pakistani Tribal AreasChapter 5: Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future ofMyanmar MuslimsChapter 6: Uyghurs: A Genocide in the MakingIndex