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dc.contributor.authorGámez Fernández, Cristina María
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-02T14:06:42Z
dc.date.available2023-10-02T14:06:42Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76529
dc.description.abstractTabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane (2014) explores the global phenomenon of female suicide bombers after the emergence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the international reconfiguration of geopolitical power after 9/11. Khair tells the story of Jamilla and Ameena, two British teenage girls of South Asian Muslim descent who decide to join Islamic State in their search for their religious ideal of Islamic truth and their impending need for belonging and recognition. This chapter analyzes the multi-dimensional complexity of vulnerability exposed both in the story thematization and in the narrative mode of fictional testimony (Ganteau 2015). Firstly, it describes the story emplotment vertebrated along two different axes: the socioeconomic and cultural context that articulates vulnerability as precarity (Butler 2004; 2009) and the conditions of the precariat (Standing 2011); and female vulnerability to oppression and patriarchal violence after the girls move to Syria. Secondly, this chapter investigates the materiality of the narrative medium of fictional testimony as a precarious yet creative vehicle to expose vulnerability. Ultimately, this chapter contends that Khair’s story and narrative form particularize the stereotyped jihadi Jane, shattering to pieces the sociopolitical ungrievability imposed on their différance (Derrida 1968) and their wasted lives (Bauman 2004).en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.otherTabish Khair, Just Another Jihadi Jane, Différance, Islamic stateen_US
dc.titleChapter 8 The Logics of Vulnerabilityen_US
dc.title.alternativeChallenging the Ungrievable Différance of the Other in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane (2016)en_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781032130323-9en_US
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oapen.relation.isPartOfBookea51c79a-9a33-4946-8aa2-e65d2ef4ceaden_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByJunta de Andalucíaen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032130316en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032424057en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages16en_US
oapen.remark.publicConsejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación de la Junta de Andalucía and FEDER Una manera de hacer Europa
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