Making sense of contemporary British Muslim novels / Claire Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Claire, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Muslim authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Muslims--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.

Muslims.

Islam and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Islam and literature.

History.

Ethnicity.

Muslim authors.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 302 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Summary:

This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and `sensuous geographies' of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors. It is a selective literary history, exploring case-study novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain to allow in-depth critical analysis through the lens of sensory criticism. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest. Some of the key authors excoriate a suppression or cover-up of non-heteronormativity and women's rights that sometimes occurs in Muslim communities. Yet their protest is especially directed at secular culture's ocularcentrism and at successive British governments' efforts to surveil, control, and suppress Muslim bodies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Chambers, Claire, 1975- Making sense of contemporary British Muslim novels.

ISBN:

1137520884

9781137520883

OCLC:

1088906545