Muslim American hyphenations : cultural production and hybridity in the twenty-first century / edited by Mahwash Shoaib.

The essays in Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century contest the lack of nuance in the public debates about American Islam and reclaim a self-determined identity by twenty-first century Muslim American writers, artists, and performers. Muslim Amer...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Shoaib, Mahwash (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Subjects:	Muslims > United States > Social conditions. Muslims > United States > Ethnic identity. Islam > United States. Islam > United States > Public opinion. Islam. Islam > Public opinion. Muslims > Ethnic identity. Muslims > Social conditions. United States.
Physical Description:	vii, 197 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction: Muslim imagination in America / Mahwash Shoaib
Section 1: The literary arts
Chapter 1: Cultivating Muslim social critique: The twenty-first century novels of Nafisa Haji and Randa Jarrar / Ibtisam M. Abujad
Chapter 2: Cosmopolitanism and transnational belonging in Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace / Farisa Khalid
Chapter 3: " , .": Space and justice in the poetry of Solmaz Sharif / Summer Farah
Chapter 4: Multiple nations under Allah: Conversion and literary nationalism in Michael Muhammad Knight's Journey to the End of Islam / Shirin Nadira
Section 2: The visual and performing arts
Chapter 5: Muslim superhero and American multiculturalism / Esra Mirze Santesso
Chapter 6: Reel bad Muslims: Negotiating the African American Muslim identity in TV and film / Rebecca Hankins
Chapter 7: Kuwaisiana: A country made through music / Sarah Juma
Chapter 8: "Heart heat," Ishq, Eros, and radical love in the collaborative artwork of Gazelle Samizay, Laimah Osman, and Sahar Muradi / Zohra Saed.