Postcolonialism and Islam : Theory, Literature, Culture, Society and Film.

Postcolonialism and Islam : Theory, Literature, Culture, Society and Film.

With a focus on the areas of theory, literature, culture, society and film, this collection of essays examines, questions and broadens the applicability of Postcolonialism and Islam from a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary perspective. Topics covered include the relationship between Postcolonialis...

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Main Author: Nash, Geoffrey
Other Authors: Kerr-Koch, Kathleen, Hackett, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Majmūʻah-ʼi ʻulūm va maʻārif-i Islāmī.
Subjects:
Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Islam and state.
Islam and culture.
Muslims > Ethnic identity.
Islamic renewal.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Islam
Islam and culture
Islam and state
Islamic renewal
Muslims > Ethnic identity
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Postcolonialism and Islam; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Keynotes; 2 Multicultural politics in post-Islamist Muslim Britain; 3 Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, aesthetics and postcolonialism; 4 Postcolonialism and Orientalism; Part II Theory; 5 Between postcolonialism and radical historicism: the contested Muslim political subject; 6 Arab Spring: The end of postcolonialism? Fanon's war and Franco-Maghrebian theory; 7 Rushdie, Said, Islam and secular postcolonialism; Part III Literature.
  • 8 Postnational aesthetics and the work of mourning in Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi9 The other in modern Arabic literature: a critique of postcolonial theory; 10 Academia, empathy and faith: Leila Aboulela's The Translator; 11 'He does not deny the suspicion that he himself is a Muslim': Goethe, Said and the other Orient; Part IV Culture and society; 12 W.H. Quilliam, Marmaduke Pickthall and the window of British modernist Islam; 13 Backlash as excess: scattered speculations on liberal multiculturalism; 14 Between Hip-hop and Muhammad: European Muslim Hip-hop and identity; Part V Film.
  • 15 Realist cinema and Islam16 'Shooting Muslims': looking at Muslims in Bollywood through a postcolonial lens; 17 The Battle of Algiers revisited; Index.

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