The Minoritized Yazidi Body as a Signifier

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  • Shereen Abouelnaga English Department, Faculty of Arts

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sex slaves, identity politics, Yazidi women, testimonies, minoritized body, voice

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This paper reads the testimonies of Yazidi women who survived their slavery at the hands of ISIS (DAESH) to understand how this ‘minoritized’ body, a term coined by Arjun Appadurai, has become a worldwide signifier. Due to the circulation of images and technologies, the testimonies of those women who survived have become the only means that allows visibility; yet, the visibility of the violated minoritized body is a fact that still signifies power and instills worldwide horror. The paper attempts to  understand how the minoritized individual body has become a body politic, onto which power relations are played out and where several discourses intersect.

Autor/innen-Biografie

Shereen Abouelnaga, English Department, Faculty of Arts

Shereen Abouelnaga
is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University and is a feminist literary critic. She has published books (Arabic & English) and several critical literary articles in scholarly journals, with a focus on gender.

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2020-07-13

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