1st Edition
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art Art and Activism after 9/11
By Kanwal Syed
Copyright 2027
252 Pages
20 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan’s visual discourse. Using social, cultural, and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-Western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives credence to cultural, historical, and even individual complexities to gender representation of urban... Read more
Introduction 1. Oppressed vs. Pious Brown Bodies: Creation of a Visual Binary Loop 2. Burka Images in Contemporary Pakistani Art after 9/11 3. Tracing the History of Feminist Resistance in Pakistani Art and Contemporary Feminist Responses to the Burka Trope 4. Nuances of Urban Gendered Subjectivities and Symbolic Urban Occupations 5. Public Places as Sites of Gendered Performative Resistance 6. Queering Gendered Brown Urban Bodies through Material Cultural Hybridity Conclusion
Biography
Kanwal Syed is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the American University in Dubai.
