This book is timely and urgent emphasizing the continued relevance of creative literature's potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination.

Aroosa Kanwal is Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan. She recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge, 2019) and Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015). Her monograph Rethinking Identities received the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She has published chapters and articles in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; Journal of Gender Studies, (Routledge), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Journal of International Women's Studies, (US).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "What is a Human without Humanity?"

Chapter 1: Bodies that don't Count: Horrorism and the Politics of Invisibility in Kashmir

Chapter 2: Dreaming with Drones: Palestine Under the Shadow of Unseen War

Chapter 3: No Turning Back: Dehumanization and Desubjectification of Syrian

and Iraqi Refugees and Asylum seekers

Chapter 4: Thanatopolitics of the More-than-Human: Slow Violence and Forensic

Ecologies of Pakistani Tribal Areas

Chapter 5: Rethinking Postcolonial Ethics: Incarcerations and Future of

Myanmar Muslims

Chapter 6: Uyghurs: A Genocide in the Making

Index