Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film

Peter Cherry is Assistant Professor in Comparative and World Literature in the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey, and a tutor in Literature at City Lit adult education college in London, UK. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his work has been published in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Critical Comparative Studies and in the edited volume Turkish Literature as World Literature (New York: Bloomsbury, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Writing British Muslim MasculinitiesPart I: Writing British Muslim Masculinities Befioe and After The Satanic Verses Affair1. Muslim Masculinities on the Move: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988)2. Sacred and Secular Masculinities: Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album (1995) and Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000) 3. Between Men, Desiring Men: Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette (dir. Stephen Frears, 1985) and Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil (dir. Sally El Hosaini, 2012)Part II: Writing British Muslim Masculinities after 9/114. British Muslim Masculinities in the Metropolis: Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2004) and Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag (2004)5. Mapping British Muslim Masculinities: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) and Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know (2014)6. Fathers, Sons, Brothers: Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2017) and Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City (2018)Conclusion: Untranslated Men?Bibliography

[Cherry's] work makes an excellent contribution to Muslim cultural studies and masculinity studies, successfully revealing that Muslim masculinities in the UK are highly diverse, and that transcultural interactions have the capacity to substantially transform British Muslim masculinities.