(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan Pakistan and Iran

This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan Pakistan and Iran across a range of literary visual and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed deconstructed and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ways is information re framed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan Pakistani and Iranian women are represented in a range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have been exploited as part of neo-imperial state and patriarchal discourses the book charts possible—and unexpected—routes via which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more it asks the reader to consider how they themselves embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities and how they might do so responsibly with empathy and accountability.