Amina Yaqin - ‘Honour Killings’ as a Muslim Issue in Migrant Writing
Last Updated on Friday, 20 February 2009 00:19
Amina Yaqin is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and Urdu at SOAS, University of London. She has published essays on gender and sexuality in Urdu poetry, Pakistani culture and Indian literature in English. Currently she is revising her monograph entitled Imagining Pakistan: narratives of nation, culture and gender and co-writing a book with Peter Morey on Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation from 9/11 to 7/7 to be published by Harvard University Press.
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Amina Yaqin describes how certain issues have come to be seen as paradigmatically Muslim, and how in news agenda-setting these issues and the way they are presented work to position Muslims beyond the pale of civil society. In particular, the matter of so-called ‘Honour Killings’ has come to be associated unproblematically with Muslim domestic practices. She traces the longer history of this fascination with honour and shame and explores its most recent literary manifestations in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
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