Masculinity in the Metanarrative of the Global War on TerrorShauna Singh Baldwin’s Transnational Critique

  1. Belén Martín-Lucas 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
  1. Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro (ed. lit.)

ISSN: 0211-5913

Any de publicació: 2019

Títol de l'exemplar: Canadian Fictions of Globality

Número: 78

Pàgines: 125-139

Tipus: Article

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Resum

This article offers a feminist critique of the globalized metanarrative on the so-called ‘war on terror,’ through an analysis –from decolonial and feminist perspectives– of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s short story collection We Are not in Pakistan (2007). Focusing on the contrasting depictions of masculinity portrayed in a selection of her stories, I intend to reveal the complexities in the gendering of a metanarrative that attempts to mobilize affects of fear and revenge. In contra-diction (that is, as counter-discourse) to the dominant rhetoric of stereotypical Islamophobia, Baldwin’s characters point out surprising comparisons and parallelisms across cultural differences, revealing common links and shared affectivity among characters of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Vocally political, her narratives provide a transCanadian perspective on violent neoimperialism after 9/11.

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