The postcolonial crescent
Subtitle: Islam's impact on contemporary literature
By: edited by John C. Hawley.
Contributors: Hawley, John C. 1947-
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Islam and literature; Islam in literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism -- Islamic countries; Postcolonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : contemporary Islamic encounters with the printed word / John C. Hawley; title: What is a Muslim? / Akeel Bilgrami; title: Artistic creativity in Islamic contexts / Mohammed Arkoun ; trans. Susan Petit; title: The dichotomy of Islam and modernity in the fiction of Naguib Mahfouz / Rasheed El-Enany; title: Islam and the literature of controversy / Anouar Majid; title: Feminist expression as self-identity and cultural critique : the discourse of Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson; title: Ayyam min hayati : the prison memoirs of a Muslim sister [Zaynab al-Ghazali] / Miriam Cooke; title: Subverting holy scriptures : the short stories of Yûsuf Idrîs / Renate Wise; title: Gender, postcolonial subject, and the Lebanese civil war in Sitt Marie Rose / Sabah Ghandour; title: Islam and Afrocentricity / Ali A. Mazrui; title: Marabout-masters : maraboutism and the problem of education in the Senegalise novel / Debra Boyd-Buggs; title: The impact of Islam on modern Bengali poetry / Syed Ali Ashraf; title: The mirage of faith and justice : some sociopolitical and cultural themes in post-colonial Urdu short stories / Habibeh Rahim; title: The changing mode of relationship between modern Persian literature and Islam : Karbala in fiction / Kamran Talattof; title: Immigrant Muslim writers in Germany / Georg Stoll.