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Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988 - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
267 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am17.01.20181st ed. 2015
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).mehr
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KlappentextWhat did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-349-55504-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum17.01.2018
Auflage1st ed. 2015
Seiten267 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht356 g
IllustrationenXI, 267 p.
Artikel-Nr.38253809

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY1. 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 CenturyPART II: TRAVELLING FICTION3. '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 ConclusionBibliographyIndexmehr
Kritik
"Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. ... Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. ... Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers ... ." (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017)

"Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. ... Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. ... Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing." (Newsline, April, 2016)mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are British Muslim Fictions (2011) and the co-edited collection Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014).