ABSTRACT

We propose a decolonial-posthuman pedagogy for contemplating the idea of ‘womanness’ in postcolonial Pakistan. Since posthumanism disbands anthropocentrism while decoloniality subverts Westcentrisms, we combine them to upend the notions of passivity and muteness attributed to Pakistani women via western feminist discourses. By foregrounding ‘womanness’ as an ongoing process of self-construction, we enable our undergraduate female Pakistani students of English Literature to rethink their selves as agentic knowing subjects. Through carefully designed activities, our students combined specific decolonial and posthuman theoretics while reading Frankenstein as a site wherein their own experiences as Pakistani women could be brought into play. Our approach blended the ideas of Walter Mignolo, Gayatri Spivak and Rosi Braidotti, etc., to posit how Pakistani womanness involves inhabiting other skins so as to raise questions regarding the modes of repression that have historically gone into defining their sense of self.

摘要

我们提出了一种去殖民后人类的教学法，以思考后殖民巴基斯坦的“女性”概念。由于后人文主义瓦解了人类中心主义，而去殖民主义颠覆了西方中心主义，我们将它们结合起来，颠覆了通过西方女权主义话语归因于巴基斯坦女性的被动和沉默的概念。通过将“女性”作为一个持续的自我建构过程，我们使我们的巴基斯坦英语文学本科女学生能够将自己重新思考为具有主体性的知识主体。通过精心设计的活动，我们的学生在阅读科学怪人的同时结合了特定的非殖民主义和后人类理论作为一个可以发挥自己作为巴基斯坦妇女的经历的场所。我们的方法融合了 Walter Mignolo、Gayatri Spivak 和 Rosi Braidotti 等人的想法，假设巴基斯坦女性如何与其他皮肤一起居住，从而对历史上用来定义她们自我意识的压抑模式提出疑问。