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Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about
Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Islam
has been a rich topic in German-language literature since the
middle ages, and the writings about it not only reveal much about
Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Many of
the early essays in this chronologically arranged volume uncover
fresh evidence of how German writers used images of Islam-as-other
to define their individual subject positions as well as to define
the German nation and the Christian religion. The perspectives of
many contemporary writers are, however, far removed from such a
polar opposition of cultures. Their experience of the
German-Islamic encounter is complicated by a crucial factor: many
of them emerge from Muslim migrant communities such as the
German-Turkish community. The culturally hybrid origins of these
writers and their expression of experiences and ideologies that
cross boundaries of East and West, Christendom and Islam, strongly
affect the findings of the essays as the volume moves toward the
present. The texts discussed include travelogues and other
firsthand encounters with Islam; reports for colonial authorities;
aesthetic treatises on Islamic art; literary, essayistic, and
theological writing on Islamic religious practice; the
incorporation of characters, situations, and settings from the
Islamic world into fiction or drama; and fictional and
autobiographical writing by Muslims in German. Contributors: Cyril
Edwards, Silke Falkner, James Hodkinson, Timothy R. Jackson,
Margaret Littler, Rachel MagShamrain, Frauke Matthes, Yomb May,
Jeffrey Morrison, Kate Roy, Monika Shafi, Edwin Wieringa, W. Daniel
Wilson,Karin E. Yesilada. James Hodkinson is Assistant Professor of
German at Warwick University; Jeffrey Morrison is Senior Lecturer
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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