The Resource Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari, (electronic book)
Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari, (electronic book)
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The item Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
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- Islam and the Eastern African Novel offers an idiosyncratic perspective on the sub-Saharan African novel. Mirmotahari argues that Islam is not an incidental factor in Gurnah and Farah's novels, but a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race and racial paradigms in Africa, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts
- "Islam in the Eastern African Novel engages the novels of three important eastern African novelists--Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and M.G. Vassanji--by centering Islam as an interpretive lens and critical framework. Mirmotahari argues that recognizing the centrality of Islam in the fictional works of these three novelists has important consequences for the theoretical and conceptual conversations that characterize the study of African literature. The overdue and sustained attention to Islam in these works complicates the narrative of coloniality, the nature of the nation and the nation-state, the experience of diaspora and exile, the meaning of indigenaity, and even the form and history of the novel itself"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Contents
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- 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€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
- Isbn
- 9781283158794
- Label
- Islam in the Eastern African Novel
- Title
- Islam in the Eastern African Novel
- Statement of responsibility
- by Emad Mirmotahari
- Subject
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- Africa, East
- Africa, East -- Intellectual life
- African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- East African literature -- History and criticism
- Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
- Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Islam in literature
- Literature
- Vassanji, M. G
- Vassanji, M. G. -- Criticism and interpretation
- 1900 - 1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Islam and the Eastern African Novel offers an idiosyncratic perspective on the sub-Saharan African novel. Mirmotahari argues that Islam is not an incidental factor in Gurnah and Farah's novels, but a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race and racial paradigms in Africa, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts
- "Islam in the Eastern African Novel engages the novels of three important eastern African novelists--Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and M.G. Vassanji--by centering Islam as an interpretive lens and critical framework. Mirmotahari argues that recognizing the centrality of Islam in the fictional works of these three novelists has important consequences for the theoretical and conceptual conversations that characterize the study of African literature. The overdue and sustained attention to Islam in these works complicates the narrative of coloniality, the nature of the nation and the nation-state, the experience of diaspora and exile, the meaning of indigenaity, and even the form and history of the novel itself"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- UKPGM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mirmotahari, Emad
- Dewey number
- 823/.9140938297
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9340.5
- LC item number
- .M57 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Palgrave Connect (Online service)
- Series statement
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Farah, Nuruddin
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Vassanji, M. G.
- Farah, Nuruddin
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Vassanji, M. G
- East African literature
- Islam in literature
- African literature
- Africa, East
- Literature
- Africa, East
- Label
- Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 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€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
- Control code
- SPR732617796
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283158794
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613158796
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 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€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
- Control code
- SPR732617796
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283158794
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613158796
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Africa, East
- Africa, East -- Intellectual life
- African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- East African literature -- History and criticism
- Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
- Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Islam in literature
- Literature
- Vassanji, M. G
- Vassanji, M. G. -- Criticism and interpretation
- 1900 - 1999
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