TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed,Rehana
AU  - Morey,Peter
AU  - Yaqin,Amina
TI  - Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing
T2  - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
SN  - 9780415896771 (hbk)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Muslim authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Islam in literature
KW  - Muslims in literature
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Islam and culture
KW  - Muslim diaspora
KW  - Islam and literature
N1  - 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
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