Masood Raja's Publications

Monographs

Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred. Lever Press, 2023.
ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives. Routledge, 2019.
The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America. Palgrave, 2016.
Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, Oxford UP, 2010.

Edited Books

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice (Co-edited with Nick T.C Lu), Routledge, 2023.
Worldly Teaching: Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature (Co-dited with Hillary Stringer and Zach VandeZande), Palgrave Press, 2013.
The Postnational Fantasy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. (co-edited with Jason W. Ellis and Swaralipi Nandi). McFarland Press, 2011.

Refereed Articles

• “Globalization and Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance.” Postcolonial Text Vol 16 (3) 2021.
• “Pakistani English Novel and the Burden of Representation: Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” The Ravi 150, 2014: 81-89.
• “Democratic Criticism and the Importance of Islamic Hermeneutics of Reading in the Twenty-First Century. “South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 36 (3) 2013: 449-464.
• “Exclusionary Narratives, Ambivalence, and Humanistic Studies.” Journal of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, 1 (1) 2012: 13-20.
• “Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan.” Journal of International and Global Studies, Vol. 3 (1) 2011: 21-31.
• “Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood: The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity.” Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. Vol. 39 (2011): 423-440.
• “Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire.” Postcolonial Text [Online], Vol. 5 (2) 2009: 14 pages.
• “Jihad in Islam: Colonial Encounter, the Neoliberal Order, and the Muslim Subject of Resistance.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 26 (4) 2009: 47-71.
• “The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan.” Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 1 (2) 2009: 60-65.
• “The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Mirza Ghalib’s Narrative of Survival.” Prose Studies 31 (1) 2009: 40-54.
• “The Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom.” Radical Teacher. (82) 2008: 32-37.
• “Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, the West, and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity.” The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association. Vol. 1 (1) 2008: 33-45.
• “The King Buzzard: Bano Qudsia’s Postnational Allegory and the Nation-State.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 40 (1) 2007: 95-110.
• “Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works.” Postcolonial Text [online]. Vol. 3 (4) 2007: 1-13.
• “Operation Enduring Freedom and the Politics of Popular Representation.” Muslim Public Affairs Journal. 2007: 81-90.
• “We is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance. Caribbean Studies 34 (1) 2006: 111-130.
• “Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Novel and the Politics of Writing Beyond the Nation-State.” Interactions 15 (2) 2006: 49-60.
• “Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.” South Asian Review: Special Issue on V. S. Naipaul 26 (1) 2005: 224-239.
• “Death as a Form of Becoming: The Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics.” Digest of Middle East Studies 14 (2) 2005: 8-26.

Book Chapters

• “Competing Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market, and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE)”. The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing. Aroosa
• Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam.Routledge 2018: 348-359.
• “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada’s Baazigar.” Revisiting India’s Partition. Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, Rahul K. Gairola, Eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016: 233-244.
• “Ajaibāt-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambal Posh’s Metropolitan Journey and the Ways of Seeing the West.” Journeys to the West: The Occident as Other in Narratives of Travel. Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014: 133-144.
• “Allama Muhammad Iqbal: Poet Philosopher and the Dangers of Appropriation.” Decolonizing the Body of Christ: Theology and Theory after Empire. Ed. Joseph Duggan. Palgrave, 2012: 107-126.
• “Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics.” Muslims, Globalization and Secularism. Gabriele Marranci. Ed. Aberdeen: Springer, 2010: 99-112.
• “Beyond Textual Acts of Translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the Politics of Muslim Identity in British India”. Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond. Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009: 95-106.
• “Abul A’ala Maududi: British India and the Politics of Popular Islamic Texts.” Literature of British India. S. S Towheed. Ed. Stuttgart/Germany: Ibidem, 2007: 173-191.
• “Doctorow’s Ragtime: Inserting Class in a Literary Discussion.” Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Eds. Munster/Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2007: 105-116.
• “Introduction to Muhammad Iqbal.” The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Victoria Arana, Ed. New York: Facts on File, Dec 2007.
• “When You Look and Sound ‘Un-American’:Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing.”(with three other writers). Finding our Way: A Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell-Teague. Eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Creative Works/ Translations

• “On the Day of Z. A. Bhutto’s Death.” (Short Story). South Asian Review: Special Issue on Pakistani Fiction, 2011.
• “The King Buzzard–Bano Qudsia’s Raja Gidh.” (Translation). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 2 (1) 2010: 122-139.
• “Walking Home.” (Poem). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 1 (2) 2009: 148-9. “Of Bunnies and Firecrackers.” (Short Story) South Asian Review Vol. 29 (3) 2008: 85-7. “For Benazir.” (Poem). Postcolonial Text Vol.4 (2) 2008.
  “Weera.” (Short Story). Belmont Literary Journal, 2002.
• “Walking Home on 911” (Essay). Belmont Literary Journal, 2002.
• “Beyond my Fingertips.” (Poem). Belmont Literary Journal, 2001.
• “Ward Four,” and “Mandela.” (Poems). Belmont literary Journal, 1999.

Reviews

• “Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. South Asian History and Culture, Volume, 4 (3) 2013: 427-428.
• “Two and a Half Words, or How to Write Truly Pakistani Fiction.” Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, Vol. 3 (2) 2011: 113-15
• “The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Hundred Years of War.” Review. Digest of Middle East Studies 17 (2) 2008:134-136.
• “Nationalistic Rhetoric: The Last Crusade.” Review. American Book Review 28 (6) 2007. “Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith & Sexuality.” Review. Postcolonial Text
• 3 (2) 2007.
  “Education as Enforcement.” Review. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. No. 6 (1) 2004.