In the Crossfire of History

LAVA ASAAD is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Auburn University in Alabama. She is the author of Literature with a White Helmet: The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming and Representing Refugees.FAYEZA HASANAT completed her MA and PhD in English from the University of Florida. She is the author of Nawab Faizunnesa’s Rupjalal: Translation and Commentary and The Voices of War Heroines: Sexual Violence, Testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War. Her debut short story collection, The Bird Catcher and Other Stories, was simultaneously published in the United States and Bangladesh. Hasanat teaches at the English Department of the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

• Introduction: Portraits of ResistancesPart I: Representation of Resistance in Art and MediaChapter 1: Syrian Women’s Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative InsurgencyStefanie SevcikChapter 2: Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War MoviesFarzana AkhterChapter 3: Structuring Jinelogy within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western MediaLava AsaadPart II: Literature and ResistanceChapter 4: All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in ArgentinaLucÍa GarcÍa-SantanaChapter 5: The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of ResistanceDoaa OmranChapter 6: South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition LiteratureMargaret HagemanChapter 7: Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking IndiaCarolyn OwnbeyChapter 8: Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a “Thousand Mirrors” of ResistanceMoumin QuaziPart III: Advocacy / ActivismChapter 9: Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of IndiaNyla Ali KhanChapter 10: Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Study on University StudentsShafinur NaharChapter 11: They Fear Us Because We are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and its AdversariesMatthew SpencerConclusion: Detangling ResistanceNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.”- Swapna M. Banerjee (Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York) "This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural.  The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." - Dina M. Siddiqi (Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS))