Title Islamophobia and the novel / Peter Morey

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Literature now Literature now Contents Introduction -- "Islamophobia": the word and the world -- Islam, culture and anarchy: faith, doubt and liberalism in Ian McEwan and John Updike -- From multiculturalism to Islamophobia: identity politics and individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali -- Muslim misery memoirs: the truth claims of exotic suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini -- Migrant cartographies: Islamophobia and the politics of the city space in Amy Waldman and H.M. Naqvi -- States of statelessness: Islamophobia and border spaces in the thrillers of John Le Carre, Dan Fesperman and Richard Flanagan -- Islamophobia and the global novel: 'worlding' history in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie -- Marketing the Muslim: globalisation and the postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila Aboulela -- Conclusion: towards a critical Muslim literary studies Summary In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice, showing how their portrayals of Muslims both reflect and refute the ideological preoccupations of media and politicians in the post-9/11 West. Islamophobia and the Novel discusses novels embodying a range of positions--from the avowedly secular to the religious, and from texts that appear to underwrite Western assumptions of cultural superiority to those that recognize and critique neoimperial impulses. Morey offers nuanced readings of works by John Updike, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, John le Carré, Khaled Hosseini, Azar Nafisi, and other writers, emphasizing the demands of the literary marketplace for representations of Muslims. He explores how depictions of Muslim experience have challenged liberal assumptions regarding the novel's potential for empathy and its ability to encompass a variety of voices. Morey argues for a greater degree of critical self-consciousness in our understanding of writing by and about Muslims, in contrast to both exclusionary nationalism and the fetishization of difference. Contemporary literature's capacity to unveil the conflicted nature of anti-Muslim bigotry expands our range of resources to combat Islamophobia. This, in turn, might contribute to Islamophobia's eventual dismantling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Islamophobia in literature. Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism Muslims in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Fiction Islamophobia in literature Muslims in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231541336 0231541333

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