Title Britain through Muslim eyes : literary representations, 1780-1988 / Claire Chambers

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- 1. Orientalism in Reverse: Early Muslim Travel Accounts of Britain -- 2. 'Truly a person progresses by travelling and interacting with different peoples': Travelogues and Life Writing of the Twentieth Century -- PART II: TRAVELLING FICTION -- 3. 'I haf been to Cambridge!': Muslim Fictional Representations of Britain, 1855-1944 -- 4. 'England-returned': British Muslim Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s -- 5. Myth of Return Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s: 'A bit of this and a bit of that' -- The Myth of Conclusion Summary "The Muslim as a cultural category has come under increasing, most often hostile, scrutiny in Euro-America over the last four decades or so. As a result, the field of Muslim literary studies has emerged to shine a spotlight on the exciting body of literature by authors of Muslim heritage writing back to Islamophobic stereotypes. However, this academic oeuvre too often assumes that this literature is a contemporary, broadly post-9/11 phenomenon. In this important book, Claire Chambers takes a long view of depictions of Britain by writers from Muslim backgrounds. The book's first half focuses on travel and life writing from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries by authors such as Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, Najaf Koolee Meerza, and Atiya Fyzee. In the second half, she trains her critical gaze on the long tradition of fictional representations, from Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg Over Leg (1855) to Ahdaf Soueif's Aisha (1983) and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way (1988). Chambers argues that the Rushdie affair has been more of a turning point on perceptions of and by Muslims in Britain than 9/11. Her next book in this two-part series, Muslim Representations of Britain, 1988-Present, will therefore start with discussion of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) and move to examination of the long shadow this text has cast on subsequent Muslim literary representations"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Fiction -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, Islamic -- History and criticism Muslim authors -- Attitudes National characteristics, British -- Public opinion Public opinion -- Islamic countries National characteristics, British, in literature. Muslims in literature. British in literature. Saracens in literature. Literary theory. Cultural studies. Islam. Religion & beliefs. Literature: history & criticism. Literary studies: post-colonial literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Indic. RELIGION -- Islam -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Islamic Studies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Saracens in literature British in literature Fiction -- Muslim authors Literature Muslims in literature National characteristics, British, in literature Public opinion Travelers' writings, Islamic SUBJECT Great Britain -- In literature Subject Great Britain Islamic countries Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137315311 1137315318 9781137539380 1137539380

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