Title:
Islam and postcolonial discourse / edited by Esra Mirze Santesso and James E. McClung.
Author:
Santesso, Esra Mirze, editor.
McClung, James E., editor.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash.
Publisher:
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
Publication Place:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781472465443
147246544X
Subject:
Muslims in literature.
Islam in literature.
Muslims in motion pictures.
Islam in motion pictures.
Islam -- 21st century.
Postcolonialism.
Contents:
Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash.
Physical Description:
xvi, 255 pages ;
Publication Date:
2017.
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