Cloth: 978-1-5179-1993-1 | Paper: 978-1-5179-1994-8 | eISBN: 978-1-4529-7749-2 (EPUBMOBI)
Exploring contemporary literature to expose how post-9/11 counterterror strategies are used to unhome families of color
More than a quarter of a century after 9/11, the global war on terror continues to rage in the name of homeland security. Through literature and archival research, Jay Shelat shows how war, Islamophobia, police brutality, and other state-sponsored legal and social maneuvers are used to revoke and control Brown and Black families and their belonging, and why the empire always starts at home.
By exploring insurgent narratives in fiction and poetry by writers of color such as Kamila Shamsie, N. K. Jemisin, and Dur e Aziz Amna, No Place for Home traces the long history of white supremacy infiltrating family life. Shelat expands this picture to include records, laws, brochures, executive orders, and other forms of documentation to illuminate how domesticity is posited as conditional—dependent on racial permission—in the United States. Woven through this nuanced exploration of radicalized violence in the US since the attacks are discussions of stubborn identity, queer kinship, and community organizing.
No Place for Home analyzes post-9/11 literature as a crucial informant for our understanding of how the war on terror has evolved into its current state. In doing so, Shelat charts a radical, healing way forward.
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