Islam in the Eastern African Novel

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The work Islam in the Eastern African Novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Statement of responsibility

by Emad Mirmotahari

Creator

• Mirmotahari, Emad

Contributor

• Palgrave Connect (Online service)

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

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"--

Member of

• Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
• Online access with purchase: Springer

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UKPGM

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

Series statement

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world