Islam in the Eastern African Novel
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2011
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1st ed. 2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29124-3 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29124-3 (ISBN)
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
EMAD MIRMOTAHARI Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Tulane University, USA.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.08.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 208 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Africa • African • Concept • Dictatorship • History • India • Indian • Interpret • Islam • Memory • Migration • Novel • Pilgrim • Religion • Typology |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-29124-2 / 1349291242 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-29124-3 / 9781349291243 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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