British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

✍ Scribed by Claire Chambers (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-32
Tariq Ali....Pages 33-55
Fadia Faqir....Pages 56-74
Aamer Hussein....Pages 75-96
Leila Aboulela....Pages 97-114
Abdulrazak Gurnah....Pages 115-133
Nadeem Aslam....Pages 134-157
Tahmima Anam....Pages 158-173
Mohsin Hamid....Pages 174-190
Robin Yassin-Kassab....Pages 191-206
Kamila Shamsie....Pages 207-227
Hanif Kureishi....Pages 228-244
Ahdaf Soueif....Pages 245-256
Zahid Hussain....Pages 257-269
Conclusion....Pages 270-273
Back Matter....Pages 274-351

✦ Subjects

Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Middle Eastern Culture; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Postcolonial/World Literature