Donald R. Wehrs

Islam, Ethics, Revolt

Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Mahgreb Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

Rereading works by Camara Laye, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Rachid Boudjedra, Yambo Ouologuem, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mariama Bâ, and Assia Djebar, this study explores the struggle to craft decolonized Islamic identities within sub-Saharan and North African societies. Linking the politics of these narratives to an Islamic piety rooted in ethical revolt against egotism and idolatry, the study considers the agency of non-Western values in postcolonial literature and the relationship between novelistic and prophetic discursive authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780739116494
• ISBN-10: 0739116495
• Artikelnr.: 23607849

Autorenporträt

By Donald R. Wehrs

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3
Introduction: Ethical Revolt in Islamic Piety and Novelistic Discourse
Chapter 4 1 Gendering the Subject and Engendering the Self: Mande
Acculturation, Islamic Piety, and the Forging of Ethical Identity in Camara
Laye's L'Enfant noir Chapter 5 2 Islamic Ethics, Anticolonialism, and the
Perils of Modernity and its Repudiation: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'aventure
ambiguë Chapter 6 3 Modernity in Revolt Against Islam: Ouologuem's Le
devoir de violence and Boudjedra's La Répudiation Chapter 7 4 Political
Economy, Cultural Despair, and the Crisis of The Language of Revolt:
Kourouma's Les soleils des indépendances Chapter 8 5 Incorporating the
Female Subject: Revolt, Despair, and Madness in Bâ's Un chant écarlate
Chapter 9 6 The "Sensible," the Maternal, and the Ethical Grounding of
Feminist Islamic Discourse in Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia and Loin de
Médine Chapter 10 7 Requiem and Rebirth: The Language of Islamic Ethical
Revolt in Djebar's Blanc de l'Algérie Chapter 11 Conclusion: Islamic
Ethical Revolt in Historical and Philosophical Context Chapter 12
Bibliography Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Author