| Description |
viii, 211 p. |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 38
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism.
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Islam in literature.
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Muslims in literature.
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Muslim authors -- Political and social views.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Islam and culture.
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Muslim diaspora.
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Islam and literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ahmed, Rehana.
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Morey, Peter.
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Yaqin, Amina, 1972-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415896771 |
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9780203129623 (electronic bk.) |
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