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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Post-9/11 fiction
- War on Terror'fiction
- world literature
- postcolonial literature and theory
- Anglophone South Asian Muslim writing
- contemporary Pakistani writers in English
- representations of Islam
- Muslim self-representation
- Islamophobia
- stereotyping
- Salman Rushdie
- Mohsin Hamid
- Nadeem Aslam
- Kamila Shamsie
- Shalimar the Clown
- The Enchantress of Florence
- Moth Smoke
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Maps for Lost Lovers
- The Wasted Vigil
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'Highlighting how a number of key contemporary writers of Muslim background have strategically engaged with rigidly constructed notions of 'Islam', this book provides a sensitive and intelligent reading of South Asian fictions. In its wide-angled and transnational perspective, it is not only important but engaging and timely, demonstrating how these writers take us directly to the centre of issues that are crucial to our times'. Susheila Nasta, Professor of Modern Literature, The Open University, UK
'This important book considers how some of the best-known contemporary Pakistani English language novelists negotiate their relationship with Islam and the West. Rejecting conventional views of such writers as either anthropologically 'representative' of their Muslim cultural heritage, or naively exotic pawns in a culture war between supposedly clashing civilizations, Madeline Clements shows how the authors' own complex personal and cultural affiliations give shape to novels that challenge the expectations and stereotypes of a putative Western reader. She is sensitive to the dynamic textual strategies deployed to give this body of work its distinctive yet diverse quality. Her subtle and powerful readings of novels by Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie set a new benchmark for criticism that would do justice to the novels as works of art while at the same time staying alert to the shaping role of a fraught global political context.' Peter Morey, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective
Book Subtitle: Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Authors: Madeline Clements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137554383
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55437-6Published: 29 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55438-3Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 196
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Asian Literature