Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film - Peter Cherry

Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film

Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2023
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4467-4 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure. British Muslims men are often profiled in highly negative terms or regarded with suspicion owing to their perceived religious and cultural heritage. But novels and films by British migrant and diaspora writers and filmmakers powerfully contest these stereotypes, and explore the rich diversity of Muslim masculinities in Britain.

This book is the first critical study to engage with British Muslim masculinities in this literary and cinematic output from the perspective of masculinity studies. Through close analysis of work by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Guy Gunaratne, Sally El Hosaini, Hanif Kureishi, Suhayl Saadi, Kamila Shamsie, Zadie Smith, Zia Haider Rahman and Salman Rushdie, Peter Cherry examines how migrant and diaspora protagonists negotiate their masculinity in a climate of Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric. Cherry proposes a transcultural reading of these novels and films that exposes how conceptions of 'Britishness', 'Muslimness' and those of masculinity are unstable and contingent constructs shaped by migration, interaction with other cultures, and global and local politics.

Peter Cherry is Assistant Professor in Comparative and World Literature in the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey, and a tutor in Literature at City Lit adult education college in London, UK. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his work has been published in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Critical Comparative Studies and in the edited volume Turkish Literature as World Literature (New York: Bloomsbury, 2021).

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing British Muslim Masculinities

Part I: Writing British Muslim Masculinities Befioe and After The Satanic Verses Affair

1. Muslim Masculinities on the Move: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988)
2. Sacred and Secular Masculinities: Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album (1995) and Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000)
3. Between Men, Desiring Men: Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette (dir. Stephen Frears, 1985) and Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil (dir. Sally El Hosaini, 2012)

Part II: Writing British Muslim Masculinities after 9/11

4. British Muslim Masculinities in the Metropolis: Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2004) and Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag (2004)
5. Mapping British Muslim Masculinities: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) and Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know (2014)
6. Fathers, Sons, Brothers: Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2017) and Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City (2018)

Conclusion: Untranslated Men?

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Gender and Islam
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-7556-4467-0 / 0755644670
ISBN-13 978-0-7556-4467-4 / 9780755644674
Zustand Neuware
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