Masood Raja’s Publications
Books
- ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives. Routledge, 2019.
- The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016.
- Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching. (Co-edited with Hillary Stringer and Zach VandeZande) Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013.
- Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity 1857-1947. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- The Postnational Fantasy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. (Co-edited with Jason W. Ellis and Swaralipi Nandi). McFarland Press, 2011.
- Once Upon a Country, (Novel), Trafford, 2002.
- The Eastern Breeze, (Poems), Appledot Publishers, Pakistan, 1999.
Refereed Articles
- “Pakistani English Novel and the Burden of Representation: Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” The Ravi Vol. 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, Vol.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.
- “Jihad in Islam: Colonial Encounter, the Neoliberal Order, and the Muslim Subject of Resistance.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 26 (4) 2009: 47-71.
- “Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire.” Postcolonial Text [Online], Vol. 5 (2) 2009: 14 pages.
- “The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan.” Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 1 (2) 2009: 60-65.
- “The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Mirza Ghalib’s Narrative of Survival.” Prose Studies, Vol. 31 (1) 2009: 40-54.
- “The Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom.” Radical Teacher. No. (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.
- “Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works.”Postcolonial Text [online], Vol. 3 (4) 2007:13 pages.
- “The King Buzzard: Bano Qudsia’s Postnational Allegory and the Nation-State.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol. 40 (1) 2007: 95-110.
- “Operation Enduring Freedom and the Politics of Popular Representation.” Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Winter 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 Vol. 34 (1) 2006: 111-130.
- “Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire: The Novel and the Politics of Writing Beyond the Nation-State.” Interaction s: Ege Journal of English and American Studies. Vol. 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 Vol. 26 (1) 2005: 224-239.
- “Death as a Form of Becoming: The Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics.” Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 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. Eds. Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. Routledge 2018: 348-359.
- “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada’s Baazigar.” Revisiting Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (eds. by Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, and Rahul Gairola) Lexington, 2016: 233-244.
- “Ajaibāt-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambal Posh’s Metropolitan Journey and the Ways of Seeing the West.” Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers. Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds. Palgrave, 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.” Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 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 and Faiz Ahmad Faiz.” 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, Vol. 31 (3) 2010: 75-88.
- “The King Buzzard–Bano Qudsia’s Raja Gidh.” (Translation). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 2 (1) 2010: 122-139.
- “Walking Home.” (Poem). Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 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.
- “An Act of Kindness?” (Short Story). Belmont literary Journal, 1997.
- “Shaeedoon Ki Lashen Dekh Kar.” (Poem). Defense Journal, Pakistan, 1991.
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 Vol. 17 (2) 2008:134-136.
- “Nationalistic Rhetoric: The Last Crusade.” Review. American Book Review Vol. 28 (6) 2007:10-11.
- “Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith & Sexuality.” Review. Postcolonial Text Vol. 3 (2) 2007.
- “Education as Enforcement.” Review. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. No. 6 (1) 2004.