Dr Amina Yaqin
BA (Punjab) BA (Sussex) PhD (London)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia
Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)
Member
Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
Centre for Gender Studies
Member
- Name:
- Dr Amina Yaqin
- Email address:
- ay@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4305
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 470
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays 10:00-12:00
Biography
Literature; LanguageTeaching
Programmes Convened
- BA South Asian Studies Urdu Pathway
- MA in Postcolonial Studies
- Research Degrees: South Asia
- Research Degrees: South East Asia
Courses Taught
- Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Urdu)
- Directed Readings in the Literature of a Modern South Asian Language
- Dissertation in Postcolonial Studies
- Dissertation in the Study of Contemporary Pakistan
- Imagining Pakistan: culture, politics, gender
- Imagining Pakistan: culture, politics, gender (MA)
- Postcolonial Theory and Practice
PhD Students supervised
- Ambra Guarnieri, The native informant: the (im)possible perspective in postcolonial travel narratives
Research
Postcolonial Theory and literature, Gender Studies, Diasporic literatures (South Asia), Comparative literature, Pakistani culture, Muslims in Britain. She has published essays on gender and sexuality in Urdu poetry, Pakistani culture, Indian literature in English and the Islamic Barbie.Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- South Asia
Country Expertise
- India
- Pakistan
- United Kingdom
Languages
- Urdu
Publications
Authored Books
Morey, Peter and Yaqin, Amina (2011) Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11. Cambridge, Massachussetts, London, England: Harvard University Press.
Book Chapters
Yaqin, Amina (2009) 'Variants of cultural nationalism in Pakistan: a reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi and Fahmida Riaz.' In: Pemberton, Kelly and Michael, Nijhawan, (eds.), Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 115-139. (Routledge Studies in Religion)
Yaqin, Amina (2007) 'The role of family and gender in Rushdie's writing.' In: Gurnah, Abdulrazak, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Cambridge University Press, pp. 61-75.
Yaqin, Amina (2006) 'The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai's In Custody.' In: Morey, P. and Tickell, A., (eds.), Alternative Indias. Writing, Nation and Communalism. Rodopi, pp. 89-113.
Articles
Yaqin, Amina (2010) 'Inside the Harem, Outside the Nation: Framing Muslims in Radio Journalism.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 12 (2). pp. 226-238.
Yaqin, Amina (2007) 'Islamic Barbie: The Politics of Gender and Performativity.' Fashion Theory The Journal of Dress Body & Culture, 11 (2). pp. 173-88.
Yaqin, Amina (2007) 'Truth, Fiction and Autobiography in the Modern Urdu Narrative Tradition.' Comparative Critical Studies, 4 (3). pp. 379-402.
Yaqin, Amina (2006) 'Badan Darida (The Body Torn): Gender and Sexuality in Pakistani Women's Poetry.' Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 13 (1). pp. 45-65.
Yaqin, Amina (2004) 'Breaking the Mirror of Urdu Verse: Speech and Silence in the Poetry of Kishwar Naheed.' Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 4 (1). pp. 34-46.
Yaqin, Amina (2002) 'Desbaratar la nación: modelamiento genérico de la poesía Urdu (Disrupting the nation: Gendering Urdu poetry).' Asparkía: Investigació feminista, vol. 1 . pp. 159-80.
Yaqin, Amina (1998) 'Language and Politics in Pakistan by Tariq Rahman.' Interventions, 1 . pp. 140-142.
Other
Morey, Peter and Amina, Yaqin (2010) 'Introduction: Muslims in the Frame.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 12 (2). pp. 145-156.
Morey, Peter and Amina, Yaqin, eds. (2010) 'Special Issue: Muslims in the Frame. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 12(2).'
Yaqin, Amina (2000) 'South Asian Anglophone Studies.' In: CD Rom Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. Swets and Zeitlinger.
Yaqin, Amina (1999) 'Issues of Translation: 3 Contemporary Urdu Poems.' In: The SOAS Literary Review. Internet SOAS publication.
