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Fundamentalism and literature /
Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini declared the notorious fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the fact that literature and fundamentalism have mutual resonances has become obvious. With recent events, from the 9/11 World Trade Centre mayhem to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, fundamentalism h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Fundamentalism and literature / Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer
- I. The many guises of fundamentalism: expanding visions. "To the shores of Tripoli": Milton, Islam, and the attacks on American and Spain / Gordon Campbell
- Jonathan Swift and the idea of the fundamental church / Anne Barbeau Gardiner
- The "aesthetics" of fundamentalism in recent Jewish fiction in English / Axel Stähler
- II. Beyond the binary: literary interventions in polarization. Deconstructing fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The black album / Wendy O'Shea-Medour
- From Enlightenment to the prison of light: reverting to Parsi fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family matters / Catherine Pesso-Miquel
- Doubling of parts: Arundhati Roy as novelist and political critic / Susanne Peters
- III. Fundamentalism in post/modernist contexts. Tariq Ali and recent negotiations of fundamentalism / Klaus Stierstorfer
- Literature as the "Schismatic other of the sacred text" or itself sacred? The Black album by Hanif Kureishi / Helga Ramsey-Kurz
- Never better than late: the Left behind series and the incongruities of fundamentalist idealisms / Kevin L. Cope.