Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (Global Connections) - Hardcover

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Sanja Bahun is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning , the co-editor of The Avant-garde and the Margin: New Territories of Modernism , Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate, From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women's Aesthetic Production, Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras, Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious , and Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions, and she has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects concerning women's and gender studies, modernism, world literature, psychoanalytic theory and intellectual history. V.G. Julie Rajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and a lecturer in the Program for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She has authored two monographs: Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence and Al Qaeda's Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims. Her recent papers include 'Women Terrorists in Postcolonial Conflicts Globally'. Dr. Rajan has edited several special issues including Women Suicide Bombers: Negotiations of Violence (Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies) and has co-edited several book collections including Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras.