Rethinking recognition in Muslim diasporic writing. From an “ethics of responsibility” in The Reluctant Fundamentalist to an “ethics of dispersion” in The Silent Minaret
This paper interrogates and complicates the definition of Muslims post-9/11 in terms of prescriptive recognition patterns, by examining two Muslim diasporic novels: South African author Ishtiyak Shukri’s The Silent Minaret (2005) and British-Pakistani novelist, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundament...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2017.1386396 |