1st Edition
Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations Twenty-first Century Muslim Women’s Writing in the Diaspora
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Toward a New Mode of Reading Muslim Diaspora Writing: Muslimness and the Homing Desire in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent, Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities and Jarrar’s A Map of Home
3 Recovering Voices and Creating Muslim Spaces in the Diaspora: Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies
4 From Islamic Feminism to Muslim Feminism(s) in Diaspora Space: A Comparative Analysis of Aboulela’s Minaret, Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf, El-Wardany’s These Impossible Things and Habib’s We Have Always Been Here
5 Conclusion
Index
Biography
Neriman Kuyucu specializes in contemporary Anglophone literature, focusing on works by twenty-first-century postcolonial and diasporic writers. Her research interests are shaped by interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to diaspora and literary studies. She currently teaches humanities and literature courses at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey.
