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).
Innehållsförteckning
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
Om författaren
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).