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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Myth of Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- literature
- migration
- religion
- Muslims
- Islam
- Britain
- South Asia
- Arab world
- Persia/Iran
- East Africa
- Malaysia
- Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin
- Sake Dean Mahomed
- Mirza Abu Taleb Khan
- Najaf Koolee Meerza(with Reeza Koolee Meerza and Taymoor Meerza)
- Atiya Fyzee and Maimoona Sultan
- Aga Khan III
- Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah
- Zulfikar Ghose
- Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra
- fiction
About this book
Reviews
“Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. … Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. … Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers … .” (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017)
“Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. … Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. … Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing.” (Newsline, April, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Britain Through Muslim Eyes
Book Subtitle: Literary Representations, 1780-1988
Authors: Claire Chambers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315311
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25259-2Published: 12 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55504-8Published: 17 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31531-1Published: 30 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 267
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Islam, Sociology of Religion, Asian Literature