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Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
Contributor(s): Erickson, John (Author)
ISBN: 0521101158     ISBN-13: 9780521101158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $47.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2009
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Annotation: In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world'.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 809.891
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 220 pages
 
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John Erickson examines four major authors from the third-world--Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Salman Rushdie--all of whom have critiqued the relationship between Islam and the West. Erickson analyzes the narrative strategies they deploy to explore the encounter between Western and Islamic values and reveals their use of the cultural resources of Islam, and their intertextual exchanges with other third-world writers. These writers, he argues, valorize expansiveness and indeterminacy in order to represent individuals and groups that live on the margins of society.