Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11, this text examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Islam and British Literature 2. Rethinking Hybridity in Monica Ali's Brick Lane 3. Subaltern Desire in Leila Aboulela's Minaret 4. Mimicry in Fadia Faqir's Cry of the Dove 5. Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly 6. Resisting Disorientation Notes Bibliography Index

Report

"Santesso offers another compelling intervention into the gaps of many studies of contemporary Anglophone literature: their treatment of everyday religious faith and practice, particularly for diasporic Muslim women. ... through an examination of narratives of disorientation, Santesso suggests that a more complex and textured portrait emerges of immigrant Muslim women." (Emily Johansen, Contemporary Women's Writing, Vol. 10 (1), March, 2016)

Product details

• Authors: E Santesso, E. Santesso, Esra Santesso, Esra Mirze Santesso
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137281715
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28171-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature