Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations

ISBN-13: 9780415659307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 222 str.

Claire Chambers; Caroline Herbert

Opis

Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the 'South Asian Muslim' have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema. Contributors contextualize these depictions against the burgeoning post-9/11 artistic interest in Islam, and also against cultural responses to earlier crises on the subcontinent such as Partition (1947), the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and secession of Bangladesh, the 1992 Ayodhya riots, the 2002 Gujarat genocide and the Kashmir conflict.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contexts and Text Part I: Surveying the Field; Comparative Approaches 1. The Making of a Muslim 2. Representations of Young Muslims in Contemporary British South Asian Fiction. 3. Before and Beyond the Nation: South Asian and Maghrebi Muslim Women’s Fiction Part II: Syncretism, Muslim Cosmopolitanism, and Secularism 4. Restoring the Narration: South Asian English writing and Al-Andalus 5. Music, Secularism and South Asian Fiction: Muslim Culture and Minority Identities in Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies 6. ‘A Shrine of Words’: The Politics and Poetics of Space in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office 7. Hamlet in Paradise: The Politics of Procrastination in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator Part III: Currents within South Asian Islam 8. Liberalizing Islam through the Bildungsroman: Ed Husain’s The Islamist 9. Enchanted Realms, Sceptical Perspectives: Salman Rushdie’s Recent Fiction 10. Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim: Bangladeshi Islam, Secularism and the Tablighi Jamaat Part IV: Representations, Stereotypes, Islamophobia11. Saving Pakistan from Brown Men: Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan’s Last Best Hope for Democracy 12. Queer South Asian Muslims: The Ethnic Closet and its Secular Limits 13. After 9/11: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows