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Islam and Postcolonial Narrative

by John Erickson

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John Erickson examines four major authors from the "third-world"--Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Salman Rushdie--all of whom have critiqued the relationship between Islam and the West. Erickson analyzes the narrative strateg... Read more
John Erickson examines four major authors from the "third-world"--Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Salman Rushdie--all of whom have critiqued the relationship between Islam and the West. Erickson analyzes the narrative strategies they deploy to explore the encounter between Western and Islamic values and reveals their use of the cultural resources of Islam, and their intertextual exchanges with other "third-world" writers. These writers, he argues, valorize expansiveness and indeterminacy in order to represent individuals and groups that live on the margins of society. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.51 in
Print pages220
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date February 12, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521594233
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John Erickson
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John Erickson was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and served in British Army Intelligence from 1946 to 1949. He was Fellow in Soviet Military Affairs of St Anthony's College, Oxford and Lectu...

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