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Friendship, Fear, and Female Agency in Just Another Jihadi Jane

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane (2017) reframes the contemporary radicalization narrative through the intimate, ethically complex friendship of Jamilla and Ameena—two British Muslim teenagers who leave Yorkshire for Syria. Avoiding sensationalism, the novel interrogates gender, class, and faith without reducing its protagonists to stereotypes. Reading the novel’s confessional structure alongside postcolonial feminism and radicalization studies, this essay argues that Khair foregrounds female agency as “contextualized transgression” rather than simple victimhood, while exposing the seductions—and bankruptcies—of absolutist belonging.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17194803

Author: Tamanna Khatoon, Dr.

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7083291311

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