Islam in the eastern African novel
By: Emad Mirmotahari
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic World
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230108431
Subjects: African literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; East African literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern; In literature; Islam in literature
Description: "Islam in the Eastern African Novel engages the novels of three important eastern African novelists--Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and M. G. Vassanji--by centering Islam as an interpretive lens and critical framework. Mirmotahari argues that recognizing the centrality of Islam in the fictional works of these three novelists has important consequences for the theoretical and conceptual conversations that characterize the study of African literature. The overdue and sustained attention to Islam in these works complicates the narrative of coloniality, the nature of the nation and the nation-state, the experience of diaspora and exile, the meaning of indigenaity, and even the form and history of the novel itself"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.