Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the 'South Asian Muslim' have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and in particular since the events of September 11, 2001.
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the 'South Asian Muslim' have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and in particular since the events of September 11, 2001.
Claire Chambers is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, UK. She researches modern literature from South Asia, the Arab world and their diasporas. Claire is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers and the forthcoming Representations of Muslims in Britain. Caroline Herbert is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Her research centres on contemporary South Asian Literature and film, with a specific interest in narratives of urban modernity, secularism, and economic liberalization in India. She is editor of Postcolonial Cities: South Asia, a special issue of Moving Worlds (2013).
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Introduction: Contexts and Text Part I: Surveying the Field; Comparative Approaches 1. The Making of a Muslim 2. Representations of Young Muslims in Contemporary British South Asian Fiction. 3. Before and Beyond the Nation: South Asian and Maghrebi Muslim Women's Fiction Part II: Syncretism, Muslim Cosmopolitanism, and Secularism 4. Restoring the Narration: South Asian English writing and Al-Andalus 5. Music, Secularism and South Asian Fiction: Muslim Culture and Minority Identities in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies 6. 'A Shrine of Words': The Politics and Poetics of Space in Agha Shahid Ali's The Country Without a Post Office 7. Hamlet in Paradise: The Politics of Procrastination in Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator Part III: Currents within South Asian Islam 8. Liberalizing Islam through the Bildungsroman: Ed Husain's The Islamist 9. Enchanted Realms, Sceptical Perspectives: Salman Rushdie's Recent Fiction 10. Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim: Bangladeshi Islam, Secularism and the Tablighi Jamaat Part IV: Representations, Stereotypes, Islamophobia11. Saving Pakistan from Brown Men: Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan's Last Best Hope for Democracy 12. Queer South Asian Muslims: The Ethnic Closet and its Secular Limits 13. After 9/11: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie's Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows
Introduction: Contexts and Text Part I: Surveying the Field; Comparative Approaches 1. The Making of a Muslim 2. Representations of Young Muslims in Contemporary British South Asian Fiction. 3. Before and Beyond the Nation: South Asian and Maghrebi Muslim Women's Fiction Part II: Syncretism, Muslim Cosmopolitanism, and Secularism 4. Restoring the Narration: South Asian English writing and Al-Andalus 5. Music, Secularism and South Asian Fiction: Muslim Culture and Minority Identities in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies 6. 'A Shrine of Words': The Politics and Poetics of Space in Agha Shahid Ali's The Country Without a Post Office 7. Hamlet in Paradise: The Politics of Procrastination in Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator Part III: Currents within South Asian Islam 8. Liberalizing Islam through the Bildungsroman: Ed Husain's The Islamist 9. Enchanted Realms, Sceptical Perspectives: Salman Rushdie's Recent Fiction 10. Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim: Bangladeshi Islam, Secularism and the Tablighi Jamaat Part IV: Representations, Stereotypes, Islamophobia11. Saving Pakistan from Brown Men: Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan's Last Best Hope for Democracy 12. Queer South Asian Muslims: The Ethnic Closet and its Secular Limits 13. After 9/11: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie's Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows
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