Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ahmed, Rehana; Yaqin, Amina; Morey, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136473401
• Artikelnr.: 38275332

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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