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Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Author:	MirmotahariEmad.,
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Place of Publication:	New York
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2011
Description:	1 online resource.
Series:	Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
Subject:	East African literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Islam in literature. -
Subject:	African literature - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Subject:	Literature. -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM - African. -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM - Middle Eastern. -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM - General. -
Personal Subject:	Farah - Nuruddin - Criticism and interpretation. -
Personal Subject:	Gurnah - Abdulrazak - Criticism and interpretation. -
Personal Subject:	Vassanji - M. G. - Criticism and interpretation. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230119291An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
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.
ISBN:	9780230119291electronic bk.
ISBN:	0230119298electronic bk.
ISBN:	9780230346987
ISBN:	0230346987
ISBN:	9780230108431hardback
ISBN:	0230108431hardback
Content Note:	Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise�* The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea * Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Memory of Departure��"Men With Civilizations But Without Countries": Afro-Indians at History's End Revisiting Nurrudin Farah's From a Crooked Rib * A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of the African Dictatorship Trilogy��.

Islam in the Eastern African Novel
Mirmotahari, Emad.

Islam in the Eastern African Novel / by Emad Mirmotahari. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 1 online resource.. - (Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world).
Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise�* The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea * Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Memory of Departure�*�"Men With Civilizations But Without Countries": Afro-Indians at History's End * Revisiting Nurrudin Farah's From a Crooked Rib * A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of the African Dictatorship Trilogy��..
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index..
ISBN 9780230119291ISBN 0230119298ISBN 9780230346987ISBN 0230346987ISBN 9780230108431ISBN 0230108431
East African literatureIslam in literature.African literatureLiterature.LITERARY CRITICISMLITERARY CRITICISMLITERARY CRITICISM -- History and criticism. -- History and criticism. -- African. -- Middle Eastern. -- General. -- 20th century

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