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Islam and Me : Narrating a Diaspora / Shirin Ramzanali Fazel ; edited by Simone Brioni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramzanali Fazel, Shirin, author.
- Series:
- Other voices of Italy.
- Other Voices of Italy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Non-Islamic countries.
- Muslims.
- Islamophobia.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Immigrants' writings--History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Islam and Me is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants, and especially Muslim women, are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, Shirin urges us to consider minorities not just as "topics" of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin's invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume also includes a dialogue between the author and the editor, which discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a "colonial model" of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Praise for Islam and Me
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword \ Charles Burdett
- An Introduction to a Meticcio Text \ Simone Brioni
- Note on Translation and Alphabetization \ Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni
- 1. Dear Italy
- 2. My Daily Islam
- 3. Birmingham
- 4. Islamophobia
- 5. Contradictions
- 6. A Dialogue on Memory, Perspectives, Belonging, Language, and the Cultural Market \ Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
- Coda: A Note about This Collaborative Project \ Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-3584-1
- 1-9788-3585-X
- OCLC:
- 1390918415
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