LEADER 04805oam 2200853I 450 001 9910785542403321 005 20230126205634.0 010 $a1-136-47339-4 010 $a1-283-58521-9 010 $a9786613897664 010 $a0-203-12962-8 010 $a1-136-47340-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203129623 035 $a(CKB)2670000000237891 035 $a(EBL)1016047 035 $a(OCoLC)810087449 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704741 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12282790 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704741 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10719765 035 $a(PQKB)10057177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1016047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1016047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10596415 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389766 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137454 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000237891 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCulture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing /$fedited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v38 225 0$aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-85158-2 311 $a0-415-89677-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWriting 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. 330 $aFiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions. Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious 410 0$aRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 606 $aEnglish fiction$xMuslim authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMuslim authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIslam in literature 606 $aMuslims in literature 606 $aMuslim authors$xPolitical and social views 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aIslam and culture 606 $aMuslim diaspora 606 $aIslam and literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xMuslim authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMuslim authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIslam in literature. 615 0$aMuslims in literature. 615 0$aMuslim authors$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aIslam and culture. 615 0$aMuslim diaspora. 615 0$aIslam and literature. 676 $a823/.9209921297 701 $aAhmed$b Rehana$01482953 701 $aMorey$b Peter$0527142 701 $aYaqin$b Amina$f1972-$0787950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785542403321 996 $aCulture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing$93735038 997 $aUNINA