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Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation.

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Author:   Daniella Kuzmanovic ,  Elisabeth Özdalga
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.041kg
ISBN:  

9781137477576

ISBN 10:   1137477571
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   24 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements On the Contributors Novel and Nation in the Muslim World: An Introduction; Elisabeth Özdalga 1. The End of Literary Narratives?; Gregory Jusdanis PART I 2. Writing the Future in Early Turkish Republican Literature; Azade Seyhan 3. Becoming Azerbaijani Through Language: On the Impact of C?lil M?mm?dquluzad?'s Anam?n Kitab?; Zaur Gasimov 4. The Kurdish Novel and National Identity-Formation Across Borders; Hashem Ahmadzadeh PART II 5. Nedjma: Kateb Yacine's Deconstruction of Algeria's Colonial Historiography; Abdelkader Aoudjit 6. For Bread Alone: How Moroccan Literature Let the Subalterns Speak; Florian Kohstall 7. Mahattat: 'Stations' on the Road to the Libyan Nation; Teetz Rooke PART III 8. Deconstructing Nation and Religion: Young Saudi Women Novelists; Madawi al-Rasheed 9. Wajdi al-Ahdal and the Broken Yemeni Nation; Sören Hebbelstrup 10. Popular Religion and the Entry into Political Modernity as Seen in The Last of the Angels; Sami Zubaida PART IV 11. Utopia and Dystopia in Early-Modern Persian Literature: Representations of the Advent of Modernity to Iran; Claus Valling Pedersen 12. Indian Shi?a Muslims and the Idea of Home in Rahi Masoom Reza's Work; Torkel Brekke Afterword: Nations and Fictions; Daniella Kuzmanovic Index

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Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Institute for Research and Development - Kurdistan, Erbil, Iraq Madawi Al-Rasheed, London School of Economics, UK Abdelkader Aoudjit, Northern Virginia Community College, USA Torkel Brekke, University of Oslo, Norway Zaur Gasimov, Orient Institute Istanbul (DGIA/Max Weber Foundation), Turkey Søren Hebbelstrup, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark Gregory Jusdanis, Department of Classics, Ohio State University, USA Florian Kohstall, Freie Universität Berlin at the German Science Center in Cairo, Egypt Daniella Kuzmanovic, Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Elisabeth Özdalga, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Tetz Rooke, University of Gothenburg in Sweden Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA Claus Valling Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sami Zubaida, University of London, UK

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