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Overview"Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of """"religion"""" and """"secularism"""" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Danielle HaquePublisher: Syracuse University Press Imprint: Syracuse University Press Weight: 0.392kg ISBN: 9780815636496ISBN 10: 0815636490 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 30 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe topics addressed in the book are important and timely; the readings of the fictional and artistic works are compelling, interesting, and relevant to a number of pressing and urgent issues today.--Michelle Hartman, McGill University A timely tour de force and a must-read for anyone concerned with international affairs and identity politics.-- Syrine Hout, American University of Beirut The topics addressed in the book are important and timely; the readings of the fictional and artistic works are compelling, interesting, and relevant to a number of pressing and urgent issues today.-- Michelle Hartman, McGill University Sharp, engaging, and iconoclastic, Interrogating Secularism is essential reading for scholars of Arab- and Muslim-American cultural production, secularism, and immigration studies.-- Joseph Farag, author of Politics and Palestinian: Literature in Exile Author InformationDanielle Haque is assistant professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |