Community, Faith, and Resistance - Writing Religious Resurgence in Select British Muslim Fiction

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.

List of contents

Introduction: The Location of Islam 1. Community, Religion, and Secularism: A Re-Reading of The Enchantress of Florence and The Road From Damascus 2. Remapping Fundamentalism, History, and Terrorism in The Black Album and The Wasted Vigil 3. Gender, Religion, and Religious Faith in Qaisra Shahraz's and Leila Aboulela's Select Novels 4. History, Economics, and the Transnational Imaginings in The Map of Love and In the Light of What We Know. Conclusion.

About the author

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".

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sk Sagir Ali, Sk Sagir (Midnapore College (Autonomous) Ali
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032187587
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218758-7
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Politics and government, Religion and Politics, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form