Overview
- Charts the development of an important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors since 1988
- Builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain
- Represents the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
The 1990s: ‘It Was Only Through Touch That We Really Knew Things’
-
Smelling and Tasting the 2000s
-
Taking Soundings in the Technologized 2010s
Keywords
- Muslims in Britain
- Britain Through Muslim Eyes
- Muslim authors
- Ahdaf Soueif
- In the Eye of the Sun
- Hanif Kureishi
- The Black Album
- Nadeem Aslam
- Maps for Lost Lovers
- Monica Ali
- Brick Lane
- Leila Aboulela
- Yasmin Crowther
- Robin Yassin-Kassab
- Tabish Khair
- Just Another Jihadi Jane
- Kamila Shamsie
- Home Fire
- Mohsin Hamid
- Exit West
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
Authors: Claire Chambers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52089-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52088-3Published: 02 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70524-5Published: 11 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52089-0Published: 23 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, British and Irish Literature, Asian Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction