Making the British Muslim [electronic resource] : Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-On-Terror Decade /
Falkenhayner, N.author.
Tracing representations of the Rushdie affair from 1989 to 2009, this study establishes a genealogy of how British Muslims appeared on the public scene and how an imaginary and politics of this subject position developed.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Rushdie Affair; 1 Transnational Takeovers; 2 Translation Failures; 3 After the Fatwa; Part II: Figurations after the Event; 4 The Fanatic Son; 5 Making the British Muslim in Literature; 6 Making the British Muslim in Film and Autobiography; Part III: Eventalization Templates; 7 Eventalizing the British Muslim; 8 The Figure of the Muslim in Europe; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracing representations of the Rushdie affair from 1989 to 2009, this study establishes a genealogy of how British Muslims appeared on the public scene and how an imaginary and politics of this subject position developed.
Islam.
Ethnology—Europe.
Literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Ethnicity.
Religion and sociology.
Islam.
European Culture.
Literature, general.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Ethnicity Studies.
Sociology of Religion.