Chambers Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-31531-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten, eBook

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, Claire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1. Orientalism in Reverse: Early Muslim Travel Accounts of Britain

2. 'Truly a person progresses by travelling and interacting with different peoples': Travelogues and Life Writing of the Twentieth Century

PART II: TRAVELLING FICTION

3. 'I haf been to Cambridge!': Muslim Fictional Representations of Britain, 1855?1944

4. 'England-returned': British Muslim Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s

5. Myth of Return Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s: 'A bit of this and a bit of that'

The Myth of Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are British Muslim Fictions (2011) and the co-edited collection Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014).