This volume considers literary fiction by Muslim writers, dealing with the interaction of Muslim and non-Muslim cultures and exploring liberal orthodoxies such as secularism and multiculturalism. It covers writers such as Rushdie, Kureishi, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie in essays by experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures in English.
This volume considers literary fiction by Muslim writers, dealing with the interaction of Muslim and non-Muslim cultures and exploring liberal orthodoxies such as secularism and multiculturalism. It covers writers such as Rushdie, Kureishi, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie in essays by experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures in English.
Rehana Ahmed is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. Peter Morey is Reader in English Literature, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK. Amina Yaqin is Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies, Department of South Asia, SOAS, UK.
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Selected Contents: Introduction Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin 1. Writing Muslims and the Global State of Exception Stephen Morton Part 1: Writing the Self 2. Bad Faith: The Construction of Muslim Extremism in Ed Husain's The Islamist Anshuman A. Mondal 3. Reason to Believe? Two 'British Muslim' Memoirs Rehana Ahmed 4. Voyages Out and In: Two (British) Arab Muslim Women's Bildungsromane Lindsey Moore Part 2. Migrant Islam 5. Infinite Hijra: Migrant Islam, Muslim American Literature, and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores Salah D. Hassan 6. Muslims as Multicultural Misfits in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers Amina Yaqin 7. 'Sexy Identity-Assertion': Choosing between Sacred and Secular Identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab's The Road from Damascus Claire Chambers Part 3: (Mis)reading Muslims 8. Writing Islam in Post-9/11 America: John Updike's Terrorist Anna Hartnell 9. Invading Ideologies and the Politics of Terror: Framing Afghanistan in The Kite Runner Kristy Butler 10. Representation and Realism: Monica Ali's Brick Lane Sara Upstone Part 4: Culture, Politics and Religion 11. From 'the Politics of Recognition' to 'the Policing of Recognition': Writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid Bart Moore-Gilbert 12. Resistance and Religion in the Work of Kamila Shamsie Ruvani Ranasinha 13. Mourning Becomes Kashmira: Islam, Melancholia, and the Evacuation of Politics in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown Peter Morey
Selected Contents: Introduction Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin 1. Writing Muslims and the Global State of Exception Stephen Morton Part 1: Writing the Self 2. Bad Faith: The Construction of Muslim Extremism in Ed Husain's The Islamist Anshuman A. Mondal 3. Reason to Believe? Two 'British Muslim' Memoirs Rehana Ahmed 4. Voyages Out and In: Two (British) Arab Muslim Women's Bildungsromane Lindsey Moore Part 2. Migrant Islam 5. Infinite Hijra: Migrant Islam, Muslim American Literature, and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores Salah D. Hassan 6. Muslims as Multicultural Misfits in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers Amina Yaqin 7. 'Sexy Identity-Assertion': Choosing between Sacred and Secular Identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab's The Road from Damascus Claire Chambers Part 3: (Mis)reading Muslims 8. Writing Islam in Post-9/11 America: John Updike's Terrorist Anna Hartnell 9. Invading Ideologies and the Politics of Terror: Framing Afghanistan in The Kite Runner Kristy Butler 10. Representation and Realism: Monica Ali's Brick Lane Sara Upstone Part 4: Culture, Politics and Religion 11. From 'the Politics of Recognition' to 'the Policing of Recognition': Writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid Bart Moore-Gilbert 12. Resistance and Religion in the Work of Kamila Shamsie Ruvani Ranasinha 13. Mourning Becomes Kashmira: Islam, Melancholia, and the Evacuation of Politics in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown Peter Morey
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