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Author Fazel, Shirin Ramzanali

Title Islam and Me Narrating a Diaspora
Published Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (205 p.)
Series Other Voices of Italy Series
Other Voices of Italy Series
Contents Cover -- Praise for Islam and Me -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword \ Charles Burdett -- An Introduction to a Meticcio Text \ Simone Brioni -- Note on Translation and Alphabetization \ Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni -- 1. Dear Italy -- 2. My Daily Islam -- 3. Birmingham -- 4. Islamophobia -- 5. Contradictions -- 6. A Dialogue on Memory, Perspectives, Belonging, Language, and the Cultural Market \ Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel -- Coda: A Note about This Collaborative Project \ Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel -- Acknowledgments
Notes -- References -- About the Contributors
Summary "Islam and Me is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants, and especially Muslim women, are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, Shirin urges us to consider minorities not just as "topics" of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin's invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume also includes a dialogue between the author and the editor, which discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a "colonial model" of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Muslims -- Non-Islamic countries.
Islamophobia.
Cultural pluralism.
Sex discrimination against women.
Immigrants' writings -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Cultural pluralism
Immigrants' writings
Islamophobia
Muslims
Sex discrimination against women
Non-Islamic countries
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Brioni, Simone
Burdett, Charles
ISBN 197883585X
9781978835856