Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin.
• Other Names: Ahmed, Rehana; Morey, Peter; Yaqin, Amina, 1972-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (252 pages)
• Subjects: 823/.9209921297; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies; English fiction -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism; Islam in literature; Muslims in literature; Muslim authors -- Political and social views; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Islam and culture; Muslim diaspora; Islam and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136473395; 1136473394
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