Islam in the eastern African novel 1 edition
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Islam in the eastern African novel
1st ed.
Emad Mirmotahari
Published
2011
by
Palgrave Macmillan
in
New York
.
Written in English.
About the Book
"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"--
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
Series |
Literatures and cultures of the Islamic World |
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
823/.9140938297 |
Library of Congress |
PR9340.5 .M57 2011 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
xiii, 208 p. ; |
Number of pages |
208 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL25566884M |
Internet Archive |
islameasternafri00mirm |
ISBN 10 |
0230108431 |
ISBN 13 |
9780230108431 |
LC Control Number |
2010045305 |
OCLC/WorldCat |
670481120 |
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