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Britain Through Muslim Eyes Claire Chambers

Britain Through Muslim Eyes By Claire Chambers

Britain Through Muslim Eyes by Claire Chambers


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What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988 by Claire Chambers

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

Britain Through Muslim Eyes Reviews

Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. ... Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. ... Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers ... . (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017)

Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. ... Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. ... Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing. (Newsline, April, 2016)

About Claire Chambers

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are British Muslim Fictions (2011) and the co-edited collection Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1. Orientalism in Reverse: Early Muslim Travel Accounts of Britain
2. 'Truly a person progresses by travelling and interacting with different peoples': Travelogues and Life Writing of the Twentieth Century
PART II: TRAVELLING FICTION
3. 'I haf been to Cambridge!': Muslim Fictional Representations of Britain, 1855?1944
4. 'England-returned': British Muslim Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s
5. Myth of Return Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s: 'A bit of this and a bit of that'
The Myth of Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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NPB9780230252592
9780230252592
0230252591
Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988 by Claire Chambers
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-08-12
267
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