Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing
By: edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 38
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415896771
Subjects: Muslim authors; Muslims in literature; History and criticism; Muslim diaspora; Islam and culture; Political and social views; Islam and literature; English fiction; American fiction; Islam in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing Muslims and the global state of exception / Stephen Morton; title: Writing the self. Bad faith : the construction of Muslim extremism in Ed Husain's The Islamist / Anshuman A. Mondal; title: Reason to believe? two "British Muslim" memoirs / Rehana Ahmed; title: Voyages out and in : two (British) Arab Muslim women's bildungsromane / Lindsey Moore; title: Migrant Islam. Infinite hijra : migrant Islam, Muslim American literature, and the anti-mimesis of The Taqwacores / Salah D. Hassan; title: Muslims as multicultural misfits in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers / Amina Yaqin; title: "Sexy identity-assertion" : choosing between sacred and secular identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab's The road from Damascus / Claire Chambers; title: (Mis)reading Muslims. Writing Islam in post-9/11 America : John Updike's Terrorist / Anna Hartnell; title: Invading ideologies and the politics of terror : framing Afghanistan in The kite runner / Kristy Butler; title: Representation and realism : Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sara Upstone; title: Culture, politics, and religion.; title: From "the politics of recognition" to "the policing of recognition" : writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid / Bart Moore-Gilbert; title: Resistance and religion in the work of Kamila Shamsie / Ruvani Ranasinha; title: Mourning becomes Kashmira : Islam, melancholia, and the evacuation of politics in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Peter Morey.