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Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions. Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. In considering the perceptions of Muslims, contributors also explore the roles of immigration, class, gender, and national identity, as well as the impact of 9/11.

This volume includes essays on contemporary fiction by writers of Muslim origin and non-Muslims writing about Muslims. It aims to push beyond the habitual populist framing of Muslims as strangers or interlopers whose ways and beliefs are at odds with those of modernity, exposing the hide-bound, conservative assumptions that underpin such perspectives. While returning to themes that are of particular significance to diasporic Muslim cultures, such as secularism, modernity, multiculturalism and citizenship, the essays reveal that Muslim writing grapples with the same big questions as serve to exercise all writers and intellectuals at the present time: How does one reconcile the impulses of the individual with the requirements of community? How can one belong in the modern world? What is the role of art in making sense of chaotic contemporary experience?

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ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration with - photo 1

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney.

Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper

The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Contemporary Caribbean Womens Poetry: Making Style by Denise deCaires Narain

African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney

CaribbeanEnglish Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Dring

Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith

Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 18221922 by Anindyo Roy

Women Writing the West Indies, 18041939: A Hot Place, Belonging To Us by Evelyn OCallaghan

Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the body by Michelle Keown

Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew

Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal

Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits

American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons

Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan Y. Najita

Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado

Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra

Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava

English Writing and India, 16001920: Colonizing Aesthetics by Pramod K. Nayar

Decolonising Gender: Literature, Enlightenment and the Feminine Real by Caroline Rooney

Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography by David Huddart

Contemporary Arab Women Writers by Anastasia Valassopoulos

Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire by Ben Grant

Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa by James Graham

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard

The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices by Matthew Boyd Goldie

Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zo Brigley Thompson

Locating Transnational Ideals edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio

Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page

Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih

Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory by Dennis Walder

Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 19481968 by Gail Low

Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment by Anthony Carrigan

The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay by Rashmi Varma

Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 18301947 by Alex Tickell

The Postcolonial Gramsci edited by Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya

Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin

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Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin

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First published 2012

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Simultaneously published in the UK

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Taylor & Francis

The right of Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing / edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin.

p. cm. (Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 38)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. English fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticism. 2. American fictionMuslim authorsHistory and criticism. 3. Islam in literature. 4. Muslims in literature. 5. Muslim authorsPolitical and social views. 6. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 7. Islam and culture. 8. Muslim diaspora. 9. Islam and literature. I. Ahmed, Rehana. II. Morey, Peter.

III. Yaqin, Amina, 1972

PR120.M87C85 2012

823'.9209921297dc23

2011033900

ISBN: 978-0-415-89677-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-12962-3 (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-136-47339-5 (epub)

Typeset in Baskerville

by IBT Global.

Contents

Writing Muslims and the Global State of Exception

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our respective institutions, Teesside University, University of East London and SOAS, for the various forms of support they have provided for this project. Susheila Nasta, Annabelle Sreberny, Nadje Al-Ali, Tariq Modood, Ziauddin Sardar, Reina Lewis and Emma Tarlo have been good friends to our work at various stages.

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