Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe Transcultural Perspectives

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

1          Introduction: Narratives of Muslim(ness) in twenty-first century Europe from a transcultural perspective

              Carmen Zamorano Llena

2          “To resist the claims and expectations of the world”: The absence of Islam and the presence of Muslimness in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

              Maria mothes

3        Displacement, emplacement and mobility in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives

              Jopi Nyman

4        On being “the Other” in both France and Algeria: Muslimness in Waciny Laredj’s Lolita’s Fingers

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5        Thinking and writing the Muslim Otherness in the Burgundian travel tales and romances

           Nissaf Sghaïer

6        Transcultural identity formation in the memoirs of Halide Edib and Huda Shaarawi

           Emel Zorluoglu Akbey

7        Transcultural voices from the past: Marabouts in Antonio de Sosa’s Topography of Algiers and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote

           Carles Magrinyà Badiella

8        Traumatic heritages, hybrid memories and uncertain multiculturalism: Narrating Muslimness in contemporary Italy

           Ilaria W. Biano

9        How our children’s books help to negotiate good parenthood: A participatory discourse analysis of Dutch Islamic children’s books with Muslim authors and parents

           Alex schenkels and Paul Mutsaers

10      The Islamic literary field and its recent transformation in contemporary Turkey

           Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu

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Biography

Carmen Zamorano Llena is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is the author of Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland (2020) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series, as well as of several collections of essays, including Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (2013) and Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe (2024).

Billy Gray is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. He is the author of Representations of Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English (2025, forthcoming) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series and of the collection of essays Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).

Carolina León Vegas is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Dalarna University, Sweden. She has published on contemporary literature written in Spain, paying special attention to the portrayal of migration and to crisis narratives produced after 2008. Her research interests include the study of activism, corporality, otherness, space, trauma and the border in literature.

Carles Magrinyà Badiella is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dalarna University, Sweden. His current research focuses on contemporary Afro-Hispanic migration narratives, border studies and collective authorship.