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Islam and Postcolonial Narrative

By John Erickson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0521594235, 9780521594233
LCC
BP89 .E75 1998
Open Library ID
OL494065M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4459452 bytes)
Pages
216\216
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

John Erickson examines four major authors from the "third-world"--Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Salman Rushdie--all of whom have critiqued the relationship between Islam and the West. Erickson analyzes the narrative strategies they deploy to explore the encounter between Western and Islamic values and reveals their use of the cultural resources of Islam, and their intertextual exchanges with other "third-world" writers. These writers, he argues, valorize expansiveness and indeterminacy in order to represent individuals and groups that live on the margins of society.

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