Negotiating Past And Present For A New Identity Contemporary Canadian Muslim Writers And Their Manifold Approaches
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Negotiating Past And Present For A New Identity Contemporary Canadian Muslim Writers And Their Manifold Approaches
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Author : Matthias Dickert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2020-11-11
Negotiating Past And Present For A New Identity Contemporary Canadian Muslim Writers And Their Manifold Approaches written by Matthias Dickert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-11 with Literary Collections categories.
Scientific Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Canada, Comenius University in Bratislava (Philosophische Fakultät), language: English, abstract: This paper compares various contemporary Muslim writers from Canada and their negotiation with their identity. The choice of works tries to focus on the last decade and wants to show the multiple and flexible way these writers treat the key topic identity. All novels offer a comprehensive and detailed investigation into the concept of identity in contemporary literature from writers with a migrational background whose basis lies in the Muslim world and who know Canada since they have lived there or still do so. The generic and thematic diversity which is reflected in these books show the importance of these writers and throws light on their pluralistic concepts of identity which has and still enriches Canlit. To better present the development of this part of Canlit the first and the last novel are discussed in more detail. The aim of this is to show the development this group of writers has made in such a short time. Contemporary English literature investigates a wide range of issues such as theoretical and conceptual debates over modernity and contemporary, the history and practice of reviewing and / or writing in relation to nationhood, gender, religion or postcoloniality. ‘Muslim Writing’, as one branch of contemporary English literature is part of 'Postcolonial Writing’ which includes sub-genres such as the 'Postcolonial', 'Black British Writing', ‘British Jewish’ or 'British Asian'. The novelists which form 'Muslim Writing' dispose of a Muslim background which is first of all geographical and cultural and not necessarily religious. It is necessary to point this out that it is not Islam nor the religious as such which shape this term since some important writers like Salman Rushdie or (for the Canadian background Rawi Hage) are not religious in the sense that they are Muslims although India and the Lebanon dispose of a large Muslim community (in the case of Rushdie) are part of a large Muslim world (or in the case of Hage). Many of these writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam, Khaled Hosseini, Hisham Matar, Monica Ali or Anna Perera attempt to bring in this geographical, cultural or religious element by discussing and reflecting topics such as postethnicity, multiculturalism, minority, race, class, gender, religion, diaspora, community, universalism, particularism, Britishness language hybridity, belonging and above identity making. Although 'Muslim Writing' in general and 'Canadian
Canadian Muslim Writing An Introduction
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Author : Matthias Dickert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-04-10
Canadian Muslim Writing An Introduction written by Matthias Dickert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Canada, , course: Englische Literatur, language: English, abstract: In the past four decades the literary reflection of Muslim life in East and West has been characterized by the West with skewed perceptions of Islam and Muslim existence. The events of 9/11 and its aftermath have worsened the traditional negative and stereotyped perception and treatment of Islam. The consequence from this was a negative treatment of Muslim existence by Western and Muslim writers alike. Many novelists disposing of a Muslim background were and (still) are trapped in the negative notion of 'the clash of civilizations' which is so often embedded in many novels be it in the presentation of the characters or simply a negative portrayal of the Muslim world. In contrast to many migrant writers with a British background who are labelled in terms such as 'Postcolonial', 'Migrant Writing', 'British Muslim Fiction', 'Muslim Narrative Writing' or 'Muslim Writing' American and Canadian based Muslim writers face a harder position since they are (historically, culturally and literarily speaking) not that deeply established as their British counterparts. This is partly due to the fewer number of writers and the shorter period of their literary presentation and a (logical) shorter literary tradition resulting from this. Open questions emerging from this here are if critics and readers alike see Islamic English literature as being literature written by Americans or Canadians or if it is basically Muslim or Islamic? It goes without saying that fiction is not only a reflection of reality but also a mode of tearing down the above mentioned stereotypes of Muslim existence as such. It is interestingly speaking matters of identity which function as key elements of 'Muslim Writing' in Britain, America and Canada a clear indication for the fact that treatment and representations of Muslims have not only been neglected so far but also offer a wide field of possibilities.
Aversion And Desire
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Author : Shahnaz Khan
language : en
Publisher: Women's Press
Release Date : 2000
Aversion And Desire written by Shahnaz Khan and has been published by Women's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
The Muslim Quest Between Integration And Provocation In Contemporary Canadian Writing A Close Analysis Of Rawi Hage S Cockroach
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Author : Matthias Dickert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-03-16
The Muslim Quest Between Integration And Provocation In Contemporary Canadian Writing A Close Analysis Of Rawi Hage S Cockroach written by Matthias Dickert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Document from the year 2017 in the subject English - Literature, Works, Comenius University in Bratislava, language: English, abstract: This essay is about Rawi Hage's novel "Cockroach", which at first sight is, according to the Daily Telegraph, 'A tale of murder, intrigue and sex from the exuberantly talented Hage'. However, Cockroach embodies more than this (negative) one-sighted approach. It is also a novel of migration, exile, diaspora and being unwanted because of being a foreigner of migrant background and Hage - like Rushdie - explores the hinterland between fantasy, trauma and realism. The unnamed narrator of the novel takes the reader by the hand and exposes this immigrant life in a chilly surrounding. Chilly because people are cold and chilly because the climate is cold, too. The fact that Hage as a Lebanese born person uses a Canadian setting as the place of action already hints at two conditions of contemporary Muslim writing in general. This refers to the autobiographical basis which many novels have and the use of the city as the background of the narration, two presuppositions of Muslim writing since Rushdie and Kureishi. Hage, in Cockroach, explores Montreal and presents it as an alien and hostile topography of menial jobs, hidden or open xenophobia, a mix of foreigners, insect behaviours and class hostilities. This narrator, an exotic foreigner himself, despises the world around him and takes the reader through a nightmare of Canadian reality on the basis of his violent childhood, the death of his sister, his exile situation and the helplessness of Canada which fails in the person of a court-mandated psychiatrist. His traumatic past and his inability as a man to protect the female members of his family are also symbols for a failed integration and the personal crisis of the narrator who seeks to find identity and a life at the border of physical and psychological death.
Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film
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Author : Alberto Fernández Carbajal
language : en
Publisher: Multicultural Textualities
Release Date : 2019
Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film written by Alberto Fernández Carbajal and has been published by Multicultural Textualities this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Performing Arts categories.
Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, this volume approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities.
9 11 And The Muslim Presentation As The Other In American And Canadian Fiction
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Author : Matthias Dickert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-11-09
9 11 And The Muslim Presentation As The Other In American And Canadian Fiction written by Matthias Dickert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Document from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: 9/11 novels, post-9/11 novels and Ground Zero Fiction which have a literary closeness of this day suddenly picked up the former colonial concepts of 'Other' and 'Otherness' or 'Center and Periphery' and set them in a context of a shifting, multicultural American population with the task to suddenly re-imagine this 'Other', a task which has hardly been dealt with and if so only on the surface. To do so is a difficult task since this has to be done from a Western perspective and in the light that this 'Other' here is attached to Islam or Muslims. The literary presentation of the 'Other' as a Muslim remains a painful step since it also has to examine the ways in which knowledge is manipulated by dominant Western and Muslim discourses but it helps to bring in new energy into the postcolonial discourse being shaped by critics such as Said, Spivak or Foucault. Thus fiction related to 9/11 must not only stay on the level of shock or individual or collective trauma it can also be seen as a starting point for new cultural and critical debates how to deal and write about the terror attacks of that day and how to see the Muslim as the 'Other' in a more objective light. How this can be done will be one central part of this book which starts with a general remark of Muslim writing before and after 9/11 and a short reflection of different types of novels dealing with it. A next step lies in the task to critically reflect the presentation of Muslims in 9/11 fiction in the USA and Canada. This will be followed by an analysis of parameters typical for Muslim existence. A closer analysis will then be followed by three novels dealing with matters of 'Otherness', The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), Cockroach (2008) and Atta (2011). The final step then will be to give an outlook of the matter discussed here. The choice of the three novels analyzed here followed one basic principle namely that all selected authors are male and dispose of a different cultural and religious background with Islam as the common glue. [...]
Writing Muslim Identity
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Author : Geoffrey Nash
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Writing Muslim Identity written by Geoffrey Nash and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with English literature categories.
Arab Tv Audiences
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Author : Ehab Galal
language : en
Publisher: PL Academic Research is
Release Date : 2014
Arab Tv Audiences written by Ehab Galal and has been published by PL Academic Research is this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Education categories.
Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging? The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volume explore audience-media relations with a focus on religious identity in different countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and the United States.
Cockroach
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Author : Rawi Hage
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-06-04
Cockroach written by Rawi Hage and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war. And as he wanders snowy streets, falling in love with fellow exile Shoreh, he realizes that to find a place in this alien world it is necessary to become someone else. Someone he never dared to be in his past life . . .
An Introduction To Contemporary Female Muslim Writing
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Author : Matthias Dickert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-02-08
An Introduction To Contemporary Female Muslim Writing written by Matthias Dickert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, Comenius University in Bratislava (Comenius University), language: English, abstract: This essay is meant to give some sort of introduction into topics female Muslim writers are responsible for at the moment. It offers some sort of overview on important female Muslim novelists whose works significantly feature female perspectives of women's themes which range from matters of gender roles, patriarchal structures, life under Islam and Sharia law, emancipation or one of the key elements, hybrid existence. The essay starts with some general notes before it moves on with a closer analysis of the hybrid. It ends with some sort of outlook where female Muslim writing might head to. The bibliography at the end lists up recommended literature by the author of this text.