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Islamophobia and the novel /

In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morey, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018.
Colección:Literature Now.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Islamophobia": the word and the world
  • Islam, culture and anarchy: faith, doubt and liberalism in Ian McEwan and John Updike
  • From multiculturalism to Islamophobia: identity politics and individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali
  • Muslim misery memoirs: the truth claims of exotic suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini
  • Migrant cartographies: Islamophobia and the politics of the city space in Amy Waldman and H.M. Naqvi
  • States of statelessness: Islamophobia and border spaces in the thrillers of John Le Carre, Dan Fesperman and Richard Flanagan
  • Islamophobia and the global novel: 'worlding' history in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie
  • Marketing the Muslim: globalisation and the postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila Aboulela
  • Conclusion: towards a critical Muslim literary studies.