Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing / edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin.
| Other author | Ahmed, Rehana. |
| Other author | Morey, Peter. |
| Other author | Yaqin, Amina, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, |
| Description | viii, 241 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 38 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011033900 |
| ISBN | 9780415896771 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9780203129623 (ebk) |