Islam in the Eastern African Novel [electronic resource] /
Mirmotahari, E.author.
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note from the Editor; Preface; Introduction; 1 Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise; 2 The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea; 3 Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure and Pilgrims Way; 4 "Men with Civilizations but Without Countries ":Afro- Indians at History's End; 5 Revisiting Nuruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib
6 A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on theTheme of an African Dictatorship TrilogyConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
Vassanji, M. G.
Literature   .
Fiction.
Islam.
African literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Fiction.
Islam.
African Literature.