Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415896771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 252 str.

Rehana Ahmed; Peter Morey; Amina Yaqin

Opis

Writers of Muslim background are producing some of the most vibrant literary fiction of our time. From Rushdie and Kureishi--whose trailblazing, controversial books challenged the racial orthodoxies of the 1980s--to the new generation of Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie, these novelists explore their own multiple belongings and affiliations through the complex fictions they create. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions.

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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

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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.