Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this bookanalyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair."
Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this bookanalyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim...
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...
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the 'South Asian Muslim' have undergone substantial change in the last few d...
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This bo...
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This bo...
