In-between identities : signs of Islam in contemporary American writing /
"For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition, however, because it refuses to admit the kind of ambiguity that follows from multiple i...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies in religion and the arts ;
volume 13. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : words beneath words
- Traveling with an American Qur'an : Sandow Birk and the Thirty mosques in thirty days project
- "Learning to pray all over" : the body in Mohja Kahf's poetry and fiction
- Begun in mystery : Ayad Akhtar's fiction and drama
- "Are you a Muslim or will you love?" Dropping the veil in Kazim Ali's writing
- "Sometimes I feel me" : between faith and resistance in the poetry of Blackamerican Islam
- Where hope begins: the intertextual worlds of Rabih Alameddine
- Conclusion : "Half in, half out" : Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the rescue.
