Islam and Postcolonial Discourse

Esra Mirze Santesso is Associate Professor and Associate English Department Head at the University of Georgia, USA. James E. McClung is the Director of UGA at Oxford Study Abroad Program and Residential Centre, and holds a Doctoral degree in English Literature from the University of Georgia, USA.

Table of Contents:






Foreword
Claire Chambers




Introduction
Esra Mirze Santesso




History of the Muslim Other
"Saracens in Middle English Romance"

Janice Hawes

"The Two Faced Muslim in the Early Modern Imagination: The Cultural Genealogy of a Modern Political Dialectic"

Imtiaz Habib






Secularism and Islamopolitics
"Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy: Mediating Secularism in Postcolonial Egypt"

Rehnuma Sazzad

"Unmasking Allah: The Violence of Religious Theater in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile"

Rajesh Reddy

"The Terror of Symbols: Colonialism, Secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure and Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land"

Vincent van Bever Donker




Female Agency and Subversion
"Untranslatable Acts: ‘Veiling’ and the Aporias of Transnational Feminism"

Munia Bhaumik

"Sex and the City of Riyadh: Postfeminist Fabrication"

Jean Kane




Islamophobia
"Islamophobia and its Discontents"

Tahir Abbas

"British Asian Muslim Radicalization: Narratives of Travelling Justice/Injustice"

Chloé A. Gill-Khan

"Mistaken Identities: Performances of Post 9/11 Scenarios of Fear and Terror in the US"

Ketu H. Katrak

"From Nawab to Jihadi: The Transformation of Muslim Identity in Popular Indian Cinema"

Alpana Sharma




Postsecular Re-thinking

"Politics of Privacy: Distinguishing Religion in Poststructuralist Discourse"

K. Merinda Simmons

"Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: Communal and Transnational Visions in Muslim and Arab American Poetry after September 11"

Levin Arnsperger

"Coming out for Islam? Critical Muslim Responses to Postcolonialism in Theory and Writing"

Nath Aldalala’a and Geoffrey P. Nash