Introduction: Fundamentalism and literature / Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer -- I. The many guises of fundamentalism: expanding visions: "To the shores of Tripoli": Milton, Islam, and the attacks on American and Spain / Gordon Campbell -- Jonathan Swift and the idea of the fundamental church / Anne Barbeau Gardiner -- The "aesthetics" of fundamentalism in recent Jewish fiction in English / Axel Stähler -- II. Beyond the binary: literary interventions in polarization. Deconstructing fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The black album / Wendy O'Shea-Medour -- From Enlightenment to the prison of light: reverting to Parsi fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family matters / Catherine Pesso-Miquel -- Doubling of parts: Arundhati Roy as novelist and political critic / Susanne Peters -- III. Fundamentalism in post/modernist contexts. Tariq Ali and recent negotiations of fundamentalism / Klaus Stierstorfer -- Literature as the "Schismatic other of the sacred text" or itself sacred? The Black album by Hanif Kureishi / Helga Ramsey-Kurz -- Never better than late: the Left behind series and the incongruities of fundamentalist idealisms / Kevin L. Cope
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