Islam and postcolonial discourse. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Islam and postcolonial discourse
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Esra Mirze Santesso and James E. McClung.
• Editors: Santesso, Esra Mirze; McClung, James E
• Other Names: Chambers, Claire writer of foreword.
• Contents: Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages), illustration
• Subjects: 305.6/97; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion; Muslims in literature; Islam in literature; Muslims in motion pictures; Islam in motion pictures; Islam -- 21st century; Postcolonialism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Islam; Islam in literature; Islam in motion pictures; Muslims in literature; Muslims in motion pictures; Postcolonialism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317112563; 1317112563; 9781317112570; 1317112571; 9781315589923; 1315589923
• Related ISBNs: 9781472465443; 147246544X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 12, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.