Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels

• Main Author: Chambers, Claire (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature .; British literature.; Oriental literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Asian Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and 'sensuous geographies' of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 'Touch Me, Baby': Ahdaf Soueif's In the Eye of the Sun
• 2. 'I Wanted a Human Touch': Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album
• 3. Fiction of Olfaction: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
• 4. Taste the Difference: Leila Aboulela, Yasmin Crowther, and Robin Yassin-Kassab
• 5. Sound and Fury: Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane and Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
• 6. The Doors of Posthuman Sensory Perception in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West.