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Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing / edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Muslim authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--Muslim authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Islam in literature.
- Muslims in literature.
- Muslim authors--Political and social views.
- Muslim authors.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Islam and culture.
- Muslim diaspora.
- Islam and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions. Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious
- Contents:
- Writing Muslims and the global state of exception / Stephen Morton
- Writing the self. Bad faith : the construction of Muslim extremism in Ed Husain's The Islamist / Anshuman A. Mondal
- Reason to believe? two "British Muslim" memoirs / Rehana Ahmed
- Voyages out and in : two (British) Arab Muslim women's bildungsromane / Lindsey Moore
- Migrant Islam. Infinite hijra : migrant Islam, Muslim American literature, and the anti-mimesis of The Taqwacores / Salah D. Hassan
- Muslims as multicultural misfits in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers / Amina Yaqin
- "Sexy identity-assertion" : choosing between sacred and secular identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab's The road from Damascus / Claire Chambers
- (Mis)reading Muslims. Writing Islam in post-9/11 America : John Updike's Terrorist / Anna Hartnell
- Invading ideologies and the politics of terror : framing Afghanistan in The kite runner / Kristy Butler
- Representation and realism : Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sara Upstone
- Culture, politics, and religion.
- From "the politics of recognition" to "the policing of recognition" : writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid / Bart Moore-Gilbert
- Resistance and religion in the work of Kamila Shamsie / Ruvani Ranasinha
- Mourning becomes Kashmira : Islam, melancholia, and the evacuation of politics in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Peter Morey.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-47339-4
- 1-283-58521-9
- 9786613897664
- 0-203-12962-8
- 1-136-47340-8
- 9780203129623
- OCLC:
- 810087449
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