Islam in the eastern African novel / Emad Mirmotahari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirmotahari, Emad.

Series:

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vassanji, M. G.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-.

Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-.

East African literature--History and criticism.

East African literature.

Islam in literature.

Farah, Nuruddin, 1945---Criticism and interpretation.

Farah, Nuruddin.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak.

Vassanji, M. G--Criticism and interpretation.

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature.

Intellectual life.

Criticism and interpretation.

Africa, East--Intellectual life.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

xiii, 208 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise 27

2 The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea 51

3 Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure and Pilgrims Way 73

4 "Men with Civilizations but Without Countries": Afro-Indians at History's End 97

5 Revisiting Nuruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib 123

6 A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship Trilogy 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780230108431

0230108431

OCLC:

670481120