
Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
Claire Chambers(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 2. May 2019
Book
Hardback
XXXVIII, 302 pages
978-1-137-52088-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the sequel to
Britain Through Muslim Eyes
and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and 'sensuous geographies' of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors. It is a selective literary history, exploring case-study novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain to allow in-depth critical analysis through the lens of sensory criticism. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest. Some of the key authors excoriate a suppression or cover-up of non-heteronormativity and women's rights that sometimes occurs in Muslim communities. Yet their protest is especially directed at secular culture's ocularcentrism and at successive British governments' efforts to surveil, control, and suppress Muslim bodies.
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Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 5 farbige Abbildungen
XXXVIII, 302 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-52088-3 (9781137520883)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-52089-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
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Person
Claire Chambers
is Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, UK, where she teaches modern Anglophone writing from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are
British Muslim Fictions
,
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora
,
Britain Through Muslim Eyes
, and
Rivers of Ink
.
Content
1. 'Touch Me, Baby': Ahdaf Soueif's
In the Eye of the Sun
.- 2. 'I Wanted a Human Touch': Hanif Kureishi's
The Black Album
.- 3. Fiction of Olfaction: Nadeem Aslam's
Maps for Lost Lovers
and Monica Ali's
Brick Lane
.- 4. Taste the Difference: Leila Aboulela, Yasmin Crowther, and Robin Yassin-Kassab.- 5. Sound and Fury: Tabish Khair's
Just Another Jihadi Jane
and Kamila Shamsie's
Home Fire
.- 6. The Doors of Posthuman Sensory Perception in Mohsin Hamid's
Exit West
.