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Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film / Alberto Fernández Carbajal

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Multicultural Textualities SerPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526128119
  • 152612811X
  • 9781526128126 (epub)
  • 1526128128 (epub)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film.DDC classification:
  • 809.8921297
LOC classification:
  • PN771
Online resources:
Contents:
Muslim homosexualities, diaspora, disorientation -- Queer micropolitical disorientation and phenomenology in Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette -- Interstitial queerness and the East African Ismaili diaspora in the films of Ian Iqbal Rashid -- Diasporas in reverse: queering orientalism in Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam: the Turkish Bath -- Countermemories of desire: female homosexuality and 'Coming Out' in Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight -- Queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil -- At the interstices between secularism and religiosity? Rolla Selbak's Three Veils -- Postcolonial queer melancholia, Sufism, and L'errance in the autofictional works of Abdellah Taïa -- The Druzification of history in diasporic fiction by Rabih Alameddine -- Queering home and sexuality in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home
Summary: This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage
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This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-271) and index

Muslim homosexualities, diaspora, disorientation -- Queer micropolitical disorientation and phenomenology in Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette -- Interstitial queerness and the East African Ismaili diaspora in the films of Ian Iqbal Rashid -- Diasporas in reverse: queering orientalism in Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam: the Turkish Bath -- Countermemories of desire: female homosexuality and 'Coming Out' in Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight -- Queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil -- At the interstices between secularism and religiosity? Rolla Selbak's Three Veils -- Postcolonial queer melancholia, Sufism, and L'errance in the autofictional works of Abdellah Taïa -- The Druzification of history in diasporic fiction by Rabih Alameddine -- Queering home and sexuality in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home

Description based on print version record

In English.

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