Humaira Saeed
Biographic Data
| ID | 104840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Humaira Saeed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Humaira |
| FAMILY NAME | Saeed |
| SIGNATURE | SAEED H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8333-3481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The impossibility of leaving
This article argues that Shyam Selvadurai's 2013 novel The Hungry Ghosts is beholden to a number of myths that locate the text within the concerns of queer migration studies. The protagonist Shivan is invested in the mythological promises of the west and of wealth as offering him sexual freedom and recognition, yet these commitments mean he fails to see the contextual and political specificities that cause harm both to himself and to those around…
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
The struggle for Pakistan
The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim ho and global politics/Britain through Muslim eyes: literary representations, 1780–1988." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 234–235
Affecting phantasm
This article explores the Partition narrative put forward by Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s novel The Heart Divided (1948), which is set in 1930s and 1940s colonial India. It argues that the novel’s teleological narrative proposes both the inevitability and desirability of Pakistan as it emerged from and through nationalist liberation movements for Indian independence. It utilizes theories of affect to illuminate the ways in which affects of belonging power…
British Muslim fictions
British Muslim fictions: interviews with contemporary writers ." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49(1), p. 123
Moving Feminism
The articles featured in this special issue emerged out of the ‘Transnational Feminisms’ conference organised by myself and Clare Tebbutt at the University of Manchester in December 2009.2 For this
Writing Now Review Essay
Gods without Men Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011, pb 400pp ISBN 0 2411 4311 7 £12.99 www.penguin.co.uk Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarl
The reparative in narrative
Ramchand Pakistani , Khamosh Pani and the traumatic evocation of Partition
This article will address the themes of partition, gender and trauma within two independent films from Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003) and Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani (2008). The article will consider how the events of 1947 – partition of India and creation of Pakistan – recur within the films as disruptive trauma. The article will consider what an engagement with the characteristics of trauma such as involuntary recall and d…
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
Moving Feminism
The articles featured in this special issue emerged out of the ‘Transnational Feminisms’ conference organised by myself and Clare Tebbutt at the University of Manchester in December 2009.2 For this
Ramchand Pakistani , Khamosh Pani and the traumatic evocation of Partition
This article will address the themes of partition, gender and trauma within two independent films from Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003) and Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani (2008). The article will consider how the events of 1947 – partition of India and creation of Pakistan – recur within the films as disruptive trauma. The article will consider what an engagement with the characteristics of trauma such as involuntary recall and d…
Ramchand Pakistani , Khamosh Pani and the traumatic evocation of Partition
This article will address the themes of partition, gender and trauma within two independent films from Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003) and Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani (2008). The article will consider how the events of 1947 – partition of India and creation of Pakistan – recur within the films as disruptive trauma. The article will consider what an engagement with the characteristics of trauma such as involuntary recall and d…
Moving Feminism
The articles featured in this special issue emerged out of the ‘Transnational Feminisms’ conference organised by myself and Clare Tebbutt at the University of Manchester in December 2009.2 For this
Writing Now Review Essay
Gods without Men Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011, pb 400pp ISBN 0 2411 4311 7 £12.99 www.penguin.co.uk Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarl
The reparative in narrative
British Muslim fictions
British Muslim fictions: interviews with contemporary writers ." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49(1), p. 123
Affecting phantasm
This article explores the Partition narrative put forward by Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s novel The Heart Divided (1948), which is set in 1930s and 1940s colonial India. It argues that the novel’s teleological narrative proposes both the inevitability and desirability of Pakistan as it emerged from and through nationalist liberation movements for Indian independence. It utilizes theories of affect to illuminate the ways in which affects of belonging power…
The struggle for Pakistan
The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim ho and global politics/Britain through Muslim eyes: literary representations, 1780–1988." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 234–235
The impossibility of leaving
This article argues that Shyam Selvadurai's 2013 novel The Hungry Ghosts is beholden to a number of myths that locate the text within the concerns of queer migration studies. The protagonist Shivan is invested in the mythological promises of the west and of wealth as offering him sexual freedom and recognition, yet these commitments mean he fails to see the contextual and political specificities that cause harm both to himself and to those around…
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)