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Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. ... Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. ... Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers ... . (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017) Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. ... Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. ... Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing. (Newsline, April, 2016)

“Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. … Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. … Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers … .” (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017) “Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. … Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. … Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing.” (Newsline, April, 2016)

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Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are British Muslim Fictions (2011) and the co-edited collection Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014).

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