Islam in the eastern African novel
by Emad Mirmotahari
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"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"--
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African literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, East African literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, In literature, Islam in literature, African literature, history and criticism, Africa, intellectual lifePlaces
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Islam in the eastern African novel
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
- 1st ed.
0230108431 9780230108431
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
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