Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed
category of the South Asian Muslim have undergone substantial
change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of
September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical
analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and
its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema.
Contributors contextualize these depictions against the
burgeoning post-9/11 artistic interest in Islam, and also against
cultural responses to earlier crises on the subcontinent such as
Partition (1947), the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and secession of
Bangladesh, the 1992 Ayodhya riots, the 2002 Gujarat genocide and
the Kashmir conflict. Offering a comparative approach, the book
explores connections between artists generic experimentalism and
their interpretations of life as Muslims in South Asia and its
diaspora, exploring literary and popular fiction, memoir, poetry,
news media, and film. The collection highlights the diversity of
representations of Muslims and the range of approaches to questions
of Muslim religious and cultural identity, as well as secular
discourse. Essays by leading scholars in the field highlight the
significant role that literature, film, and other cultural products
such as music can play in opening up space for complex reflections
on Muslim identities and cultures, and how such imaginative
cultural forms can enable us to rethink secularism and
religion.
Surveying a broad range of up-to-date writing and cultural
production, this concise and pioneering critical analysis of
representations of South Asian Muslims will be of interest to
students and academics of a variety of subjects including Asian
Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Women s Studies,
Contemporary Politics, Migration History, Film studies, and
Cultural Studies.
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