04825oam 2200865I 450 991095698240332120251117084650.01-136-47339-41-283-58521-997866138976640-203-12962-81-136-47340-810.4324/9780203129623 (CKB)2670000000237891(EBL)1016047(OCoLC)810087449(SSID)ssj0000704741(PQKBManifestationID)12282790(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704741(PQKBWorkID)10719765(PQKB)10057177(MiAaPQ)EBC1016047(Au-PeEL)EBL1016047(CaPaEBR)ebr10596415(CaONFJC)MIL389766(FINmELB)ELB137454(EXLCZ)99267000000023789120180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCulture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing /edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin1st ed.New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (253 p.)Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;38Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;38Description based upon print version of record.1-138-85158-2 0-415-89677-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 Routledge Research in Postcolonial LiteraturesEnglish fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticismIslam in literatureMuslims in literatureMuslim authorsPolitical and social viewsIdentity (Psychology) in literatureIslam and cultureMuslim diasporaIslam and literatureEnglish fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticism.Islam in literature.Muslims in literature.Muslim authorsPolitical and social views.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Islam and culture.Muslim diaspora.Islam and literature.823/.9209921297Ahmed Rehana1878642Morey Peter527142Yaqin Amina1972-787950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956982403321Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing4491447UNINA