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Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Islam in the Eastern African Novel/ by Emad Mirmotahari.
Author:	Mirmotahari, Emad.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	East African literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Africa, East - Politics and government. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230119291 (electronic bk.)

Islam in the Eastern African Novel
Mirmotahari, Emad.

Islam in the Eastern African Novel[electronic resource] /by Emad Mirmotahari. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource. - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world. - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.

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 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: 9780230119291 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613158796

Source: 526997Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Farah, Nuruddin,
1945---Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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East African literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Africa, East
--Politics and government.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR9340.5 / .M57 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.9140938297

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