The Rushdie affair, 9/11 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images of the veiled submissive woman, the bearded fanatic and the 'self-segregating' ghetto have proliferated, reducing a heterogeneous minority group to a series of media soundbites. This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Islam within Britain. Through close analysis of fiction by British writers of South Asian Muslim...