Interrogating secularism race and religion in Arab transnational literature and art
« 'Interrogating Secularism' is a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce s...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse University Press
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First edition 2019 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Critical Arab American studies
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| Schlagworte: |
American fiction
> Arab American authors
> History and criticism
> Arab American arts
> Secularism in literature
> Race in literature
> Islam and secularism
> Kultur
> Islam
> Kunst
> Literatur
> Roman
> Autor
> Muslim
> Zuwanderer
> Einwanderung
> Einwanderer
> United States
> Criticism, interpretation, etc
> USA
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | « 'Interrogating Secularism' is a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy. « (Verlagsbeschreibung) |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-228 und Index |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 241 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780815636311 978-0-8156-3631-1 0815636318 0-8156-3631-8 9780815636496 978-0-8156-3649-6 0815636490 0-8156-3649-0 |