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What's New in Africa? African Writing in the Twenty-First Century
No full textWhat's New in Africa? African Writing in the Twenty-First Centur
Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS “Kitty Hawk” Race Riot by Marv Truhe
No full textReview of: Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS “Kitty Hawk” Race Riot by Marv Truhe. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2023. (370 pages
Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice: Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil
No full textThe Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does not should not come close to my Eidgah (a place of offering Eid prayers) (Khattab and Khattab 2123). The primary objective of qurbani should be to achieve attainment that is intended to satisfy and get nearer to Allah in the way He likes. Sacrifice in Islam, in a circuitous logic, underlies the act of submission of one’s will to Him, the act of spending one’s material possessions on the path of the Supreme, an act of true giving. We would begin with the question: Is the moment of infinite giving, the transcendent offering, in a way, self-preserving? This paper shall attempt to understand how the theo-ontological idea of “sacrifice” operates in Islamic philosophy and how a deeper understanding of the gesture of qurbani might help us reconfigure the major representational elements surrounding Islamic culture and ethos in the post-9/11 scenario. Taking a cue from Derrida’s understanding of ethical “sacrifice,” this article shall try to understand how the figural gesture of sacrifice in Islam vis-à-vis Abrahamic ethics is fundamental to the understanding of qurbani in the post-9/11 xenophobic climate that has reduced the idea to a mere signifier of fundamentalism and cultural monism
"My Body is a Crossroad of Sorts": Performance, Postcoloniality, and the Body in Belly Dance--A Conversation with Stavros Stavrou Karayanni and Andrea Deagon
No full text"'My Body is a Crossroad of Sorts': Performance, Postcoloniality, and the Body in Belly Dance--A Conversation with Stavros Stavrou Karayanni and Andrea Deagon" by Rachid Belghit
Afro-Gothic: Testing the Term in South African Theater
No full textAfro-Gothic: Testing the Term in South African Theate
The Caine Prize and the Impossibility of "New" African Writing
No full textThe Caine Prize and the Impossibility of "New" African Writin
Postcolonial Cinema’s Pop-Culture Turn: A Survey of the Field
No full textBannister, Matthew. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi. Wayne State UP, 2021. 304 pp. Paperback. 22.99.
Dima, Vlad. Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema. Michigan State UP, 2022. 190 pp. Paperback. 131.00.
Majumdar, Rochona. Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia UP, 2021. 306 pages. Paperback. 138.00
Book Review: Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East
No full textEarly Modern Encounters with the Islamic East: Performing Cultures, edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller, and Ralf Hertel. London: Ashgate, 2012
