School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Durham, UK
Med Humanit. 2023 Dec 19;49(4):604-612. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012516.
This essay focuses on the representational relationship between disability and Islamic fundamentalism in select contemporary postcolonial literary texts by Arab authors. The essay draws mainly on critical disability theory on the concept of prosthesis to argue that disability functions as a narrative and emotional prosthesis to narratives on Islamic fundamentalism at the same time as it lays bare this very process of instrumentalisation. To this end the essay asks: What are the privileged affects that attach themselves to representations of disability in fictions of Islamic fundamentalism? How do textual and affective prostheses emerge out of, or feed back into, Islamist contexts, worldviews and subjectivities? Finally, in what ways do the narratives under analysis uphold, lay bare or dismantle such prosthetic functions of the disabled body? In particular, this essay focuses on three specific prostheses of disability in the texts: conversion narratives, contemporary histories of Islamic fundamentalist violence and the figure of the disabled Islamist.
本文聚焦于当代后殖民阿拉伯裔作家的部分文学作品中残疾与伊斯兰原教旨主义之间的表现关系。本文主要借鉴批评性残疾理论中关于假体的概念，主张残疾既是对伊斯兰原教旨主义叙事的一种叙述和情感假体，同时也揭示了这一工具化过程。为此，本文提出以下问题：在关于伊斯兰原教旨主义的小说中，残疾的哪些特殊情感会依附于其表象？文本和情感假体是如何从原教旨主义背景、世界观和主体中产生或反馈的？最后，分析中的叙述在何种程度上支持、揭示或拆解残疾身体的这种假体功能？本文特别关注文本中的三种残疾假体：皈依叙事、当代伊斯兰原教旨主义暴力史以及残疾伊斯兰教徒形象。
