- 216 pages
- English
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Islam in the Eastern African Novel
About this book
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note from the Editor
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
- 2 The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence and By the Sea
- 3 Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Memory of Departure and Pilgrims Way
- 4 “Men with Civilizations but Without Countries”: Afro-Indians at History’s End
- 5 Revisiting Nuruddin Farah’s From a Crooked Rib
- 6 A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah’s Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship Trilogy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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