Alternative Performativity of Muslimness
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Alternative Performativity of Muslimness

The Intersection of Race, Gender, Religion, and Migration

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Alternative Performativity of Muslimness

The Intersection of Race, Gender, Religion, and Migration

About this book

The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity politics. It explores the limitations of the constructed category of "African Muslim woman" in West Yorkshire. Amina Alrasheed Nayel uses Black feminist epistemology along with postcolonial, feminist, and critical race theory to examine the multiple identities that Sudanese women negotiate in the UK.

The diverse settings of Islam and Islamic culture, circumscribed around issues of performativity of Islam and identity construction in the diasporic space are unpacked in this volume. In addition, this work analyzes specific practices and performances, starting with the multifaceted nature of Islam and the problematic concepts of "Sunni/Sufi, " "Muslim woman, " "race, " and "blackness." The book reveals that exile, nostalgia, and racial/ethnic differences within Islam and the wider UK community underpin the performativity of Muslimness of the Sudanese women living in West Yorkshire, and reiterates the importance of moving beyond the homogeneity of the idea of "Muslim woman" towards investigating the complexities of this group.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. List of Graphs
  5. List of Tables
  6. Chapter 1: Research Area Problem and Methodology
  7. Chapter 2: Sudanese Women and the Intersection of Identity and Islam in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
  8. Chapter 3: Reflections on Contested Identities: Investigating the Narratives of Northern Sudanese Muslim Women in West Yorkshire
  9. Chapter 4: Missing the Nile: Melancholic Nostalgia and Making Home
  10. Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Politics of Difference, Performativity, Identities and Belonging
  11. Appendix I: Questionnaire in English
  12. Appendix II: Questionnaire in Arabic
  13. Appendix III: Interview Questions in English
  14. Appendix IV: Interview Questions in Arabic
  15. Appendix V: Table of Participants
  16. Appendix VI: Graphs and Tables
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index