Title Islam in the Eastern African Novel / by Emad Mirmotahari

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world. Contents Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise€* The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea * Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Memory of Departure€*€"Men With Civilizations But Without Countries": Afro-Indians at History's End * Revisiting Nurrudin Farah's From a Crooked Rib * A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of the African Dictatorship Trilogy€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ Summary Islam and the Eastern African Novel offers an idiosyncratic perspective on the sub-Saharan African novel. Mirmotahari argues that Islam is not an incidental factor in Gurnah and Farah's novels, but a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race and racial paradigms in Africa, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts "Islam in the Eastern African Novel engages the novels of three important eastern African novelists--Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and M.G. Vassanji--by centering Islam as an interpretive lens and critical framework. Mirmotahari argues that recognizing the centrality of Islam in the fictional works of these three novelists has important consequences for the theoretical and conceptual conversations that characterize the study of African literature. The overdue and sustained attention to Islam in these works complicates the narrative of coloniality, the nature of the nation and the nation-state, the experience of diaspora and exile, the meaning of indigenaity, and even the form and history of the novel itself"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index Notes Print version record Subject Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation Vassanji, M. G. -- Criticism and interpretation Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- Vassanji, M. G. Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- -- analys och tolkning. Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- analys och tolkning. Vassanji, M. G. -- analys och tolkning. East African literature -- History and criticism Islam in literature. African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. African literature East African literature Intellectual life Islam in literature Östafrikansk litteratur -- historia. Islam i litteraturen. Afrikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet. Africa, East -- Intellectual life Africa, East Östafrika -- intellektuellt liv. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230119291 0230119298 9780230346987 0230346987 9780230108431 0230108431 1283158795 9781283158794 9781349291243 1349291242

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