Danielle Haque
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Haque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Haque |
| SIGNATURE | HAQUE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3205-8649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Muslim Refugee
“The skin that keeps the law in place”
This chapter explores how contemporary migration novels such as Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and China Miéville’s The City & The City deploy formal disorientation to challenge dominant affective and political frameworks surrounding migration and the securitized logics of the nation-state. It argues that both novels foreground the imaginative labor required to construct, maintain, and enforce borders, showing that borders are not merely physical demar…
Blessed and Banned
This essay examines the work of twenty-first century Somali Anglophone writers and artists, analyzing how they confront the connected experiences of displacement, migration, and surveillance. I interpret the work of Warsan Shire, Diriye Osman, Ladan Osman, and Ifrah Mansour as embodying place-based transnationalisms that resist stereotypical media and political representations of Somali refugees as invasive and dangerous, especially gendered clic…
Collective Care and Human Rights Cinema
Minnesota is home to the largest US Somali population, and Musa Syeed's 2016 film, A Stray, shows aspects of the Minneapolis community usually obscured by the US media. This essay argues that Syeed's film marks a departure from conventional human rights films about refugees through its refusal to show bodily suffering or play to clichés about Muslims conflicting with Western social norms. Instead, A Stray thematizes the many forms of territorial …
Interrogating Secularism
Water Occupation and the Ecology of Arab American Literature
The relationship between humans and the biosphere is an essential component of human relationships with one another. Water links global communities literally, through shared oceans and waterways, but also through the unequal burden of pollution and rising seas on the global South that is a direct result of settler colonialism and globalization. Arab American literature has significant and often overlooked contributions to make to ecological aesth…
The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature
This essay argues that contemporary discourses around postsecularism in literature do not adequately express the concerns of Muslim American writers who are reimaging how they can practice their religion within the specificity of the US secular context. It examines the ways Mohja Kahf’s bildungsroman, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, challenges the contemporary notion of postsecular literature, which takes a weakened, hybridized, liberal spiritua…
Gibran, Rihani, & Naimy
Collective Care and Human Rights Cinema
Minnesota is home to the largest US Somali population, and Musa Syeed's 2016 film, A Stray, shows aspects of the Minneapolis community usually obscured by the US media. This essay argues that Syeed's film marks a departure from conventional human rights films about refugees through its refusal to show bodily suffering or play to clichés about Muslims conflicting with Western social norms. Instead, A Stray thematizes the many forms of territorial …
Gibran, Rihani, & Naimy
The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature
This essay argues that contemporary discourses around postsecularism in literature do not adequately express the concerns of Muslim American writers who are reimaging how they can practice their religion within the specificity of the US secular context. It examines the ways Mohja Kahf’s bildungsroman, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, challenges the contemporary notion of postsecular literature, which takes a weakened, hybridized, liberal spiritua…
Interrogating Secularism
Water Occupation and the Ecology of Arab American Literature
The relationship between humans and the biosphere is an essential component of human relationships with one another. Water links global communities literally, through shared oceans and waterways, but also through the unequal burden of pollution and rising seas on the global South that is a direct result of settler colonialism and globalization. Arab American literature has significant and often overlooked contributions to make to ecological aesth…
Collective Care and Human Rights Cinema
Minnesota is home to the largest US Somali population, and Musa Syeed's 2016 film, A Stray, shows aspects of the Minneapolis community usually obscured by the US media. This essay argues that Syeed's film marks a departure from conventional human rights films about refugees through its refusal to show bodily suffering or play to clichés about Muslims conflicting with Western social norms. Instead, A Stray thematizes the many forms of territorial …
Blessed and Banned
This essay examines the work of twenty-first century Somali Anglophone writers and artists, analyzing how they confront the connected experiences of displacement, migration, and surveillance. I interpret the work of Warsan Shire, Diriye Osman, Ladan Osman, and Ifrah Mansour as embodying place-based transnationalisms that resist stereotypical media and political representations of Somali refugees as invasive and dangerous, especially gendered clic…
“The skin that keeps the law in place”
This chapter explores how contemporary migration novels such as Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and China Miéville’s The City & The City deploy formal disorientation to challenge dominant affective and political frameworks surrounding migration and the securitized logics of the nation-state. It argues that both novels foreground the imaginative labor required to construct, maintain, and enforce borders, showing that borders are not merely physical demar…
Black Muslim Refugee
Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works)