Nadia Butt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4116972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Butt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Butt |
| SIGNATURE | BUTT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2291-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Doors that could take you anywhere’
This article, through close reading, examines Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West as a developmental narrative mapping the transition from governmental immunopolitics to an emergent and sustainable nomadic communitarianism. Whereas the concept of immunopolitics refers to practices of systemic segregation based on a self-nonself schemata, nomadic communitarianism alludes to the gathering of stateless people into sporadic and metastable communities, whi…
Gender and automobility in the Pakistani road movie Dukhtar or Daughter (2014)
This article claims that the Pakistani movie Dukhtar (Urdu/Persian: دختر; transl. Daughter ) demonstrates gender dynamics tied to automobility in the Pakistani tribal cultural contexts. To this end, I elaborate on the iron will of the female protagonist Allah Rakhi as a co-driver who shows courage in the most harrowing circumstances. Although the movie does not show a woman behind the wheels, it certainly affirms Rakhi's resistance and resilience…
A Portrait of My Father
This work of life writing aims to piece together my late father, Muhammad Iftikhar Butt, who passed away on 20 of September 1996, in Lahore, Pakistan, when I was a teenager. A loss of a parent is a great tragedy and an emotional trauma, but this tragedy and trauma are deeper when the child has not mourned the loss but has erased it from its memory. By pondering father-daughter relationships in patriarchal cultures and gender dynamics in nuclear f…
Entangled family histories of the South Asian diaspora
The reversed gaze
This paper sets out to examine cultural encounters between India and England in an 1885 Bengali travelogue Englandey Bangamahila [A Bengali Lady in England] by Krishnabhabini Das, who travelled to England with her husband at a time when the idea and practice of travelling women was either inconceivable or deemed a taboo in India. The travelogue under study deals with Das's several journeys in England and provides an intriguing account of her unde…
Walking as a Gendered Practice
This essay investigates the gendered practice of taking a walk in two works of Henry James, his early success Daisy Miller: A Study (1878) and his later-phase masterpiece The Wings of the Dove (1902). We focus on James’s women protagonists, the titular Daisy Miller and Wings’ Milly Theale and, specifically, their desire to walk unhindered through the European cities they are visiting, Rome and London, respectively. The simple activity of going fo…
Reinventing the Self
Correction StatementThis article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
The location of transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives (2005)
This article seeks to investigate the different dimensions of transcultural memory; it particularly scrutinises it with reference to travelling, dialogic and postmemory. The aim of such an approach is to discuss transcultural memory in relation to migrants, expatriates and exiles, highlighting the ways in which their memories tend to cut across national, cultural, ethnic and geographical borders. Having addressed the transcultural turn in the fie…
Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels
This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory a…
Chutneyfying” Memory and History
Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila Aboulela’s
Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila Aboulela’s
Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels
This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory a…
Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila Aboulela’s
Chutneyfying” Memory and History
Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels
This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory a…
The location of transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives (2005)
This article seeks to investigate the different dimensions of transcultural memory; it particularly scrutinises it with reference to travelling, dialogic and postmemory. The aim of such an approach is to discuss transcultural memory in relation to migrants, expatriates and exiles, highlighting the ways in which their memories tend to cut across national, cultural, ethnic and geographical borders. Having addressed the transcultural turn in the fie…
Reinventing the Self
Correction StatementThis article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
The reversed gaze
This paper sets out to examine cultural encounters between India and England in an 1885 Bengali travelogue Englandey Bangamahila [A Bengali Lady in England] by Krishnabhabini Das, who travelled to England with her husband at a time when the idea and practice of travelling women was either inconceivable or deemed a taboo in India. The travelogue under study deals with Das's several journeys in England and provides an intriguing account of her unde…
Walking as a Gendered Practice
This essay investigates the gendered practice of taking a walk in two works of Henry James, his early success Daisy Miller: A Study (1878) and his later-phase masterpiece The Wings of the Dove (1902). We focus on James’s women protagonists, the titular Daisy Miller and Wings’ Milly Theale and, specifically, their desire to walk unhindered through the European cities they are visiting, Rome and London, respectively. The simple activity of going fo…
A Portrait of My Father
This work of life writing aims to piece together my late father, Muhammad Iftikhar Butt, who passed away on 20 of September 1996, in Lahore, Pakistan, when I was a teenager. A loss of a parent is a great tragedy and an emotional trauma, but this tragedy and trauma are deeper when the child has not mourned the loss but has erased it from its memory. By pondering father-daughter relationships in patriarchal cultures and gender dynamics in nuclear f…
Entangled family histories of the South Asian diaspora
Gender and automobility in the Pakistani road movie Dukhtar or Daughter (2014)
This article claims that the Pakistani movie Dukhtar (Urdu/Persian: دختر; transl. Daughter ) demonstrates gender dynamics tied to automobility in the Pakistani tribal cultural contexts. To this end, I elaborate on the iron will of the female protagonist Allah Rakhi as a co-driver who shows courage in the most harrowing circumstances. Although the movie does not show a woman behind the wheels, it certainly affirms Rakhi's resistance and resilience…
‘Doors that could take you anywhere’
This article, through close reading, examines Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West as a developmental narrative mapping the transition from governmental immunopolitics to an emergent and sustainable nomadic communitarianism. Whereas the concept of immunopolitics refers to practices of systemic segregation based on a self-nonself schemata, nomadic communitarianism alludes to the gathering of stateless people into sporadic and metastable communities, whi…
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