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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mirmotahari, E

Titel

Islam in the Eastern African Novel [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2011

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note from the Editor; Preface; Introduction; 1 Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise; 2 The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea; 3 Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure and Pilgrims Way; 4 "Men with Civilizations but Without Countries ":Afro- Indians at History's End; 5 Revisiting Nuruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib
• 6 A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on theTheme of an African Dictatorship TrilogyConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
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