Writing Muslim Identity
Ebook
The relationship between Islam and
the West is one of the most urgent and hotly debated issues of our time. This
book is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the way in which Muslims
are represented within modern English writing, ranging from the novel, through
memoir and travel writing to journalism. Covering a wide range of texts and
authors, it scrutinises the identity 'Muslim' by looking at its inscription in
recent and contemporary literary writing within the context of significant
events like the Rushdie Affair and 9/11. Examining the wide range of writing
internationally that takes Islam or Islamic cultures as its focus, the author
discusses the representation of Muslim identity in writing by non-Muslim
writers, former Muslim 'native informants', and practising Muslims.
Surveys the representation of Muslims and Islam within modern English writing, ranging from the novel, through memoir and travel writing, to journalism
Examines a broad range of international writing in English including texts by non-Muslim and Muslim writers
Contributes to the debate about whether such a category as 'Muslim writing' exists
Introduction \1.Literature and the Kulturkampf against
Islam\ 2. British Migrant Muslim Fiction \ 3. Fixing Muslim Masculinity/ Saving
Muslim Women \ 4. Writing Muslim Modernities and Eschatologies\ 5. Identifying
the 'Islamic' Terrorist 6. Conclusion \ Bibliography \ Index.
"Nash's discourse is layered and nuanced, at times forcefully polemical, but always lucid and intellectually stimulating. In this book he raises some sharp and astute points that would enrich current, complex debates concerning literature, religion, and identity."
"There are currently few more controversial topics than Muslim identity, and the ways in which it is formed, lived, and understood. In his wide-ranging study, Geoff Nash bravely tackles a variety of contemporary representations and interventions - fictional and non-fictional, Muslim and non-Muslim - of this thorny subject."
- Title: Writing Muslim Identity
- Author: Geoffrey Nash
- Publisher: Continuum
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781441158505, 9781441136664, 1441136665, 1441158502
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441158505
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-15T15:19:05Z
Geoffrey Nash is Senior Lecturer
in English at the University of Sunderland, UK. His books include The
Anglo-Arab Encounter (Peter Lang, 2007) and From Empire to Orient (I.B.
Tauris, 2005)