Culture Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing 1st Edition by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin ISBN 0415896771 978-0415896771

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ISBN 10: 0415896771 

ISBN 13: 978-0415896771

Author: Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin 

Fiction 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 and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. In considering the perceptions of Muslims, contributors also explore the roles of immigration, class, gender, and national identity, as well as the impact of 9/11.

This volume includes essays on contemporary fiction by writers of Muslim origin and non-Muslims writing about Muslims. It aims to push beyond the habitual populist ‘framing’ of Muslims as strangers or interlopers whose ways and beliefs are at odds with those of modernity, exposing the hide-bound, conservative assumptions that underpin such perspectives. While returning to themes that are of particular significance to diasporic Muslim cultures, such as secularism, modernity, multiculturalism and citizenship, the essays reveal that ‘Muslim writing’ grapples with the same big questions as serve to exercise all writers and intellectuals at the present time: How does one reconcile the impulses of the individual with the requirements of community? How can one ‘belong’ in the modern world? What is the role of art in making sense of chaotic contemporary experience?

Table of contents: 

1 Writing Muslims and the Global State of Exception
Stephen Morton

Part 1 Writing the Self
2 Bad Faith The Construction of Muslim Extremism in Ed Husain’s The Islamist
Anshuman A Mondal

3 Reason to Believe Two ‘British Muslim’ Memoirs
Rehana Ahmed

4 Voyages Out and In Two (British) Arab Muslim Women’s Bildungsromane
Lindsey Moore

Part 2 Migrant Islam
5 Infinite Hijra Migrant Islam Muslim American Literature and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores
Salah D Hassan

6 Muslims as Multicultural Misfits in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers
Amina Yaqin

7 ‘Sexy Identity-Assertion’ Choosing between Sacred and Secular Identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Road from Damascus
Claire Chambers

Part 3 Misreading Muslims
8 Writing Islam in Post-9/11 America John Updike’s Terrorist
Anna Hartnell

9 Invading Ideologies and the Politics of Terror Framing Afghanistan in The Kite Runner
Kristy Butler

10 Representation and Realism Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Sara Upstone

Part 4 Culture Politics and Religion
11 From ‘the Politics of Recognition’ to ‘the Policing of Recognition’ Writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid
Bart Moore-Gilbert

12 Resistance and Religion in the Work of Kamila Shamsie
Ruvani Ranasinha

13 Mourning Becomes Kashmira Islam Melancholia and the Evacuation of Politics in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
Peter Morey

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