The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and literature.

Islam in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Postcolonialism--Islamic countries.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Islam and literature--History and criticism--20th century--Islamic countries.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the world awoke to the question which unifies the fifteen essays in this volume: What is the contentious relationship between the world's fastest growing religion and an increasingly secular literary world? Recognizing the convergence between Islam's religious concerns and the political agenda it shares with many postcolonial emerging nations, noted international scholars address issues of authorization, the role of gender, and the pluralism among Islamic (and non-Arabic) cultures. After providing a historical context for current crises, the essayists discuss the coming cultural enrichment and potential threat.

Contents:

Introduction : contemporary Islamic encounters with the printed word / John C. Hawley

What is a Muslim? / Akeel Bilgrami

Artistic creativity in Islamic contexts / Mohammed Arkoun ; trans. Susan Petit

The dichotomy of Islam and modernity in the fiction of Naguib Mahfouz / Rasheed El-Enany

Islam and the literature of controversy / Anouar Majid

Feminist expression as self-identity and cultural critique : the discourse of Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson

Ayyam min hayati : the prison memoirs of a Muslim sister [Zaynab al-Ghazali] / Miriam Cooke

Subverting holy scriptures : the short stories of Yûsuf Idrîs / Renate Wise

Gender, postcolonial subject, and the Lebanese civil war in Sitt Marie Rose / Sabah Ghandour

Islam and Afrocentricity / Ali A. Mazrui

Marabout-masters : maraboutism and the problem of education in the Senegalise novel / Debra Boyd-Buggs

The impact of Islam on modern Bengali poetry / Syed Ali Ashraf

The mirage of faith and justice : some sociopolitical and cultural themes in post-colonial Urdu short stories / Habibeh Rahim

The changing mode of relationship between modern Persian literature and Islam : Karbala in fiction / Kamran Talattof

Immigrant Muslim writers in Germany / Georg Stoll.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph