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This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into the ways in which the politics of representation have changed, the conflicts that arise in these coming-of-age narratives between the demands of a liberal individualist lifestyle and those of community, family, and faith.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sk Sagir Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Midnapore College, India. His published works include the edited books Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism; Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys; War on Terror: Nation, Democracy, and Liberalisation; Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture; and Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature. His articles have appeared in journals of repute such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies. Ali is series editor of the Routledge book series, "Peripheral Lives in Asia: Reimagining Nationalisms, Citizenship, and Precarity in the 21st Century".
Zusammenfassung
This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into the ways in which the politics of representation have changed, the conflicts that arise in these coming-of-age narratives between the demands of a liberal individualist lifestyle and those of community, family, and faith.
