Sauleha Kamal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sauleha Kamal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sauleha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamal |
| SIGNATURE | KAMAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7850-9307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Chip, Chip, Chip Away”
Through a postcolonial feminist lens, this paper examines the literary canon: its evolution, pedagogic purposes, and the issues of inclusion and exclusion subtending it. Scrutinising canon formation via excerpts from the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , we expose the blind spots of the canon and their consequences. The article critiques Global North paradigms of knowledge and the epistemic violence inherent in excluding minoritised voic…
Interrogating Rights through World Literature
This article examines the relationship between world literature and human rights through a reading of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017) and Best of Friends (2022). Building on scholarship on the human rights novel, it argues that Shamsie’s recent fiction registers how access to both rights and literary visibility is structured by citizenship and class. Through its depiction of borders, bureaucratic discretion, and asymmetrical mobility, Home Fire…
World Literature and Human Rights
World Literature and Human Rights
This special issue of the Journal of World Literature explores the fraught and generative intersections between world literature and human rights at a moment of acute global crisis. The introduction opens with the invocation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (1860) as an exemplary instance of literature’s capacity to intervene in debates about human rights, situating it alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a book referenced in Ma…
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam
With the location of the global literary marketplace in western centres, post-9/11 interest in anglophone Pakistani literature comes with the fetishization of minoritized identities. Fatima Bhutto’s The Runaways combats Islamophobic arguments about the Islamic origins of radicalization, showing that it emerges out of exclusion stemming from material facts of race, class, and gender. However, the novel's place in the literary marketplace complicat…
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Exclusion, empathy, and Islam
With the location of the global literary marketplace in western centres, post-9/11 interest in anglophone Pakistani literature comes with the fetishization of minoritized identities. Fatima Bhutto’s The Runaways combats Islamophobic arguments about the Islamic origins of radicalization, showing that it emerges out of exclusion stemming from material facts of race, class, and gender. However, the novel's place in the literary marketplace complicat…
“Chip, Chip, Chip Away”
Through a postcolonial feminist lens, this paper examines the literary canon: its evolution, pedagogic purposes, and the issues of inclusion and exclusion subtending it. Scrutinising canon formation via excerpts from the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , we expose the blind spots of the canon and their consequences. The article critiques Global North paradigms of knowledge and the epistemic violence inherent in excluding minoritised voic…
Interrogating Rights through World Literature
This article examines the relationship between world literature and human rights through a reading of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017) and Best of Friends (2022). Building on scholarship on the human rights novel, it argues that Shamsie’s recent fiction registers how access to both rights and literary visibility is structured by citizenship and class. Through its depiction of borders, bureaucratic discretion, and asymmetrical mobility, Home Fire…
World Literature and Human Rights
World Literature and Human Rights
This special issue of the Journal of World Literature explores the fraught and generative intersections between world literature and human rights at a moment of acute global crisis. The introduction opens with the invocation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (1860) as an exemplary instance of literature’s capacity to intervene in debates about human rights, situating it alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a book referenced in Ma…
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Comparative and World Literature (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Canon (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Cognitive reframing (1 work)