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This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, the conventions of oral storytellling common to Persia and South Asia, and the experience of migration which now sees him living in Canada. The texts are viewed through the lens of diaspora and minority discourse theories to show how Mistry's writing is illustrative of marginal positions in relation to sanctioned national identities.

English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- 820 "19" MISTRY, ROHINTON --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MISTRY, ROHINTON --- Mistry, Rohinton, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rohinton Mistry, --- מיסטרי, רוהינטון, --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- literature --- mistry --- postcolonial --- parsi --- India --- Jahangir --- Mumbai --- Parsis --- Zoroastrianism --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General --- Asia --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. --- Family Matters. --- Fine Balance. --- India. --- Indian political history. --- Man Booker Prize. --- Parsee. --- Rohinton Mistry. --- diaspora. --- migration. --- postcolonial literature.

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In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice, showing how their portrayals of Muslims both reflect and refute the ideological preoccupations of media and politicians in the post-9/11 West.Islamophobia and the Novel discusses novels embodying a range of positions-from the avowedly secular to the religious, and from texts that appear to underwrite Western assumptions of cultural superiority to those that recognize and critique neoimperial impulses. Morey offers nuanced readings of works by John Updike, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, John le Carré, Khaled Hosseini, Azar Nafisi, and other writers, emphasizing the demands of the literary marketplace for representations of Muslims. He explores how depictions of Muslim experience have challenged liberal assumptions regarding the novel's potential for empathy and its ability to encompass a variety of voices. Morey argues for a greater degree of critical self-consciousness in our understanding of writing by and about Muslims, in contrast to both exclusionary nationalism and the fetishization of difference. Contemporary literature's capacity to unveil the conflicted nature of anti-Muslim bigotry expands our range of resources to combat Islamophobia. This, in turn, might contribute to Islamophobia's eventual dismantling.

Islamophobia in literature --- Fiction --- Muslims in literature --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Islamophobia in literature. --- Muslims in literature. --- History and criticism.

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The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of political identification, few critics have considered how this literature engages directly with communalism, or charted the literary-political response to key events such as the Babri Masjid / Ramjanmabhumi affair and the recent growth of popular forms of Hindu nationalism. The essays collected in Alternative Indias break new ground in studies of Indian literature and film by discussing how key authors offer contending, 'alternative' visions of India and how poetry, fiction and film can revise both the communal and secular versions of national belonging that define current debates about 'Indianness'. Including contributions from international scholars distinguished in the field of South Asian literary studies, and featuring an informative introduction charting the parallel developments of writing, the nation and communal consciousness, Alternative Indias offers a fresh perspective on the connections and discontinuities between culture and politics in the world's biggest democracy.

Nationalism in literature. --- Communalism in literature. --- Writing in literature. --- Religion and literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects

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