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1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figure; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: History of the Muslim other; 1 Saracens in Middle English romance; 2 The two-faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: The cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic; Part II: Secularism and Islamopolitics; 3 Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy: Mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt; 4 Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile |
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5 The terror of symbols: Colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique LandPart III: Female agency and subversion; 6 Untranslatable acts: "Veiling" and the aporias of transnational feminism; 7 Sex and the city of Riyadh: Postfeminist fabrication; Part IV: Islamophobia; 8 Islamophobia and its discontents; 9 British-Asian Muslim radicalization: Narratives of traveling justice/injustice; 10 Mistaken identities: Performances of post-9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US |
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11 From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinemaPart V: Postsecular re-thinking; 12 Politics of privacy: Distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse; 13 Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: Communal and transnational visions in Muslim- And Arab-American poetry after September 11; 14 Coming out for Islam? Critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing; List of contributors; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McClung, James
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| ISBN |
9781317112563 |
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1317112563 |
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