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Full Name

Raja, Masood Ashraf

Bio

Author of Constructing Pakistan (Oxford UP, 2010) Masood Ashraf Raja is an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of North Texas, United States and the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. His critical essays have been published in journals including South Asian Review, Digest of Middle East Studies, Caribbean Studies, Muslim Public Affairs Journal, and Mosaic. He is currently working on his second book, entitled Secular Fundamentalism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred.
Focus

Theory
Category

Poco Faculty
Geographic Location

America-North

Education

Alma Mater(s)

Pakistan Military Academy
Belmont University
Florida State University
Degree(s)

Ph.D.
Dissertation or Thesis Title

Texts of a Nation: The Literary, Religious, and Political Imaginary of Pakistan
Description

Published as Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857-1947 (Oxford UP, 2010).
Supervisor

Dr. Robin Truth Goodman

Additional Information

Website

http://postcolonial.net, http://pakistaniaat.net, http://pakistaniaat.org, http://postcoloniality.org
Recent Publications

Books

1. Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity 1857-1947. Oxford University Press, 2010.
2. The Postnational Fantasy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. (co-edited with Jason W. Ellis and Swaralip Nandi). McFarland Press (Forthcoming).
3. Once Upon a Country, (Novel), Trafford, 2002.
4. The Eastern Breeze, (Poems), Appledot Publishers, Pakistan, 1999.

Refereed Articles

1. “Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood: The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity.” Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, Vol. 39, 2010 (Forthcoming).
2. “Jihad in Islam: Colonial Encounter, the Neoliberal Order, and the Muslim Subject of Resistance.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 26 (4) 2009: 47-71.
3. “Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire.” Postcolonial Text [Online], Vol. 5 (2) 2009: 14 pages.
4. “The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan.” Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 1 (2) 2009: 60-65.
5. “The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Mirza Ghalib’s Narrative of Survival.” Prose Studies, Vol. 31 (1) 2009: 40-54.
6. “The Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom.” Radical Teacher. No. (82) 2008: 32-37.
7. “Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, the West, and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity.” The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association. Vol.1 (1) 2008: 33-45.
8. “Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works.”Postcolonial Text [online], Vol. 3 (4) 2007:13 pages.
9. “The King Buzzard: Bano Qudsia’s Postnational Allegory and the Nation-State.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol. 40 (1) 2007: 95-110.
10. “Operation Enduring Freedom and the Politics of Popular Representation.” Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Winter 2007: 81-90.
11. “We is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance. Caribbean Studies Vol. 34 (1) 2006: 111-130.
12. “Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Novel and the Politics of Writing Beyond the Nation-State.” Interaction s: Ege Journal of English and American Studies. Vol. 15 (2) 2006: 49-60.
13. “Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.” South Asian Review: Special Issue on V. S. Naipaul Vol. 26 (1) 2005: 224-239.
14. “Death as a Form of Becoming: The Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics.” Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 14 (2) 2005: 8-26.

Book Chapters

1. “Ajaibāt-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambal Posh’s Metropolitan Journey and the Ways of Seeing the West.” Travels to the West. Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds. 2010. (Forthcoming).
2. “Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics.” Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Gabriele Marranci. Ed. Aberdeen: Springer, 2010: 99-112.
3. “Beyond Textual Acts of Translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the Politics of Muslim identity in British India”. Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond. Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009: 95-106.
4. “Abul A’ala Maududi: British India and the Politics of Popular Islamic Texts.” Literature of British India. S. S Towheed. Ed. Stuttgart/Germany: Ibidem, 2007: 173-191.
5. “Doctorow’s Ragtime: Inserting Class in a Literary Discussion.”Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Eds. Munster/Hamburg:LIT Verlag, 2007: 105-116.
6. “Introduction to Muhammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmad Faiz.” The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Victoria Arana, Ed. New York: Facts on File, Dec 2007.
7. “When You Look and Sound ‘Un-American’:Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing.”(with three other writers).Finding our Way: A Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell-Teague. Eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Creative Works/Translations

1. “On the Day of Z. A. Bhutto’s Death.” (Short Story). South Asian Review: Special Issue on Pakistani Fiction, 2010 (Forthcoming).
2. “The King Buzzard–Bano Qudsia’s Raja Gidh.” (Translation). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 2 (1) 2010: 122-139.
3. “Walking Home.” (Poem). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 1 (2) 2009: 148-9.
4. “Of Bunnies and Firecrackers.” (Short Story). South Asian Review Vol. 29 (3) 2008: 85-7.
5. “For Benazir.” (Poem). Postcolonial Text Vol.4 (2) 2008.
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