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Informationen zum Autor Yassir Morsi is a post-doctoral Researcher at the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia. His main area of research is the critical analysis of contemporary racism and Islamophobia. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Klappentext Radical Skin, Moderate Masks explores a voice trapped by the War on Terror. How can a Muslim speak about politics? And, in what tone can they argue? In today's climate can they "talk back" without being defined as a moderate or radical? And, what do the conditions put on their political choices reveal about liberalism and its deep and historical relationship with racism? This timely work looks at ongoing debates and how they call for Muslims to engage in a "de-radicalisation" of their voice and identities. The author takes his lessons from Fanon and uses them to make sense of his many readings of Said's Orientalism. He reflects on the personal and scholarly difficulty of writing this very book. An autoethnography follows. It shows (rather than tells of) the felt demand to use a pleasing "Apollonian" liberalism. This approved language, however, erases a Muslim's ability to talk about the "Dionysian" more Asiatic parts of their faith and politics. Zusammenfassung The book illustrates how insidiously the problem of race connects post-racially with a range of negative discourses and images conjured up by the narrative of the War on Terror. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. INTRODUCTION. ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿/ 1. (My Other) Research Question / 2. Background (or the Muslim's psychic register) to Question / 3. (My auto-ethnographic) Method, Outline & Objectives / II. FABULOUS / 4. Introducing (the First Act or) Case Study One / 5. (The "Fabulous" Mask of) Waleed Aly / 6. Finding(s) in Case Study One (the First Orientalism) / III. MILITANT / 7. Introducing (the Second Act or) Case Study Two / 8. (The "Militant" Mask of) Hamza Yusuf / 9. Finding(s) in Case Study Two (the Second Orientalism) / IV. TRIUMPHANT / 10. Introducing (the Third Act or) Case Study Three / 11. (The "Triumphant" Mask of) Maajid Nawaz / 12. Finding(s) in Case Study Three (the Third Orientalism) / V. CONCLUSION / 13. Social (Ir)relevance of Research / 14. (Questioning my) Contribution / 15. (The lack of a) Conclusion (or the Möbius strip) /Bibliography...
