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October 17, 2019

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women’s Literary and Cinematic Fictions

McIntyre Amy

By Shazia Rahman, University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

While news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani women’s attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. In Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women’s Literary and Cinematic Fictions, Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based ...