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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782727103321

Autore

Çayır Kenan

Titolo

Islamic literature in contemporary Turkey [[electronic resource] ] : from epic to novel / / Kenan Çayır

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

9780230605699

0-230-60569-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

894/.350938297

Soggetti

Islamic literature, Turkish - History and criticism

Turkish literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Turkish literary field : a space of struggle over Islam, secularism, and modernity -- Salvation novels of the 1980s : the Islamic ideal for a total Islamization of society -- The concrete performances of salvation novels on the path to collective and epic Islamism -- Self-reflexive and self-exposing novels of the 1990s : a path to Muslim subjectivity -- From Epic to Novel(istic) conceptions of Islamism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980's. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.