Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora

Focusing on imagination and self-representation as a key sociocultural force, this book examines the diverse ways Muslim writers articulate complex and multifaceted conceptualizations of Muslimness at the critical conjuncture of culture, faith, gender, sexuality and diasporic experience. It highlights how contemporary fiction offers valuable insights into discussions on Muslims.

This book situates Muslim writing in relation to “Muslimness” as an inherently contradictory field of meaning and the Muslim diaspora, which is re-conceptualized as “Muslim diaspora space.” Muslim diaspora space can be used as an analytical framework that can highlight an emerging literary site that Muslim writers create within the current politics of representation. The texts selected for close analysis in this book demonstrate that diasporic experience is not limited to displacement and its challenges; the process of diasporization also signifies the creative potential arising from navigating the tensions between mobility and rootedness, sameness and difference and loss and renewal.

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Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora

Focusing on imagination and self-representation as a key sociocultural force, this book examines the diverse ways Muslim writers articulate complex and multifaceted conceptualizations of Muslimness at the critical conjuncture of culture, faith, gender, sexuality and diasporic experience. It highlights how contemporary fiction offers valuable insights into discussions on Muslims.

This book situates Muslim writing in relation to “Muslimness” as an inherently contradictory field of meaning and the Muslim diaspora, which is re-conceptualized as “Muslim diaspora space.” Muslim diaspora space can be used as an analytical framework that can highlight an emerging literary site that Muslim writers create within the current politics of representation. The texts selected for close analysis in this book demonstrate that diasporic experience is not limited to displacement and its challenges; the process of diasporization also signifies the creative potential arising from navigating the tensions between mobility and rootedness, sameness and difference and loss and renewal.

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Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora

Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora

by Neriman Kuyucu
Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora
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Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-first Century Muslim Women's Writing in the Diaspora

by Neriman Kuyucu

Overview

Focusing on imagination and self-representation as a key sociocultural force, this book examines the diverse ways Muslim writers articulate complex and multifaceted conceptualizations of Muslimness at the critical conjuncture of culture, faith, gender, sexuality and diasporic experience. It highlights how contemporary fiction offers valuable insights into discussions on Muslims.

This book situates Muslim writing in relation to “Muslimness” as an inherently contradictory field of meaning and the Muslim diaspora, which is re-conceptualized as “Muslim diaspora space.” Muslim diaspora space can be used as an analytical framework that can highlight an emerging literary site that Muslim writers create within the current politics of representation. The texts selected for close analysis in this book demonstrate that diasporic experience is not limited to displacement and its challenges; the process of diasporization also signifies the creative potential arising from navigating the tensions between mobility and rootedness, sameness and difference and loss and renewal.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040433232
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/23/2025
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192

About the Author

Neriman Kuyucu specializes in contemporary Anglophone literature, focusing on works by 21st-century postcolonial and diasporic writers. Her research interests are shaped by interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to diaspora and literary studies. She currently teaches humanities and literature courses at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Toward a New Mode of Reading Muslim Diaspora Writing: Muslimness and the Homing Desire in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent, Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities and Jarrar’s A Map of Home

3 Recovering Voices and Creating Muslim Spaces in the Diaspora: Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies

4 From Islamic Feminism to Muslim Feminism(s) in Diaspora Space: A Comparative Analysis of Aboulela’s Minaret, Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf, El-Wardany’s These Impossible Things and Habib’s We Have Always Been Here

5 Conclusion

Index

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