Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey : From Epic to Novel / / by K. Cayir

• Autore: Cayr Kenan
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 894/.350938297
• Soggetto topico: Literature; Ethnology - Asia; Culture; Islam; Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; Middle Eastern literature; World Literature; Asian Culture; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Middle Eastern Literature
• 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 1980s. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Islamic literature in contemporary Turkey
• ISBN: 9780230605699; 9780230605695; 0230605699
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973341303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II