Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe

Carmen Zamorano Llena is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is the author of Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland (2020) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series, as well as of several collections of essays, including Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (2013) and Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe (2024).Billy Gray is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. He is the author of Representations of Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English (2025, forthcoming) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series and of the collection of essays Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).Carolina León Vegas is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Dalarna University, Sweden. She has published on contemporary literature written in Spain, paying special attention to the portrayal of migration and to crisis narratives produced after 2008. Her research interests include the study of activism, corporality, otherness, space, trauma and the border in literature.Carles Magrinyà Badiella is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dalarna University, Sweden. His current research focuses on contemporary Afro-Hispanic migration narratives, border studies and collective authorship.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on contributors1 Introduction: Narratives of Muslim(ness) in twenty-first century Europe from a transcultural perspectiveCarmen Zamorano Llena2 “To resist the claims and expectations of the world”: The absence of Islam and the presence of Muslimness in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit WestMaria mothes3 Displacement, emplacement and mobility in Jamal Mahjoub’s The FugitivesJopi Nyman4 On being “the other” in both France and Algeria: Muslimness in Waciny Laredj’s Lolita’s FingersLovisa berg5 Thinking and writing the Muslim otherness in the Burgundian travel tales and romancesnissaf sghaïer6 Transcultural identity formation in the memoirs of Halide Edib and Huda Shaarawiemel zorluoglu akbey7 Transcultural voices from the past: Marabouts in Antonio de Sosa’s Topography of Algiers and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixotecarles magrinyà badiella8 Traumatic heritages, hybrid memories and uncertain multiculturalism: Narrating Muslimness in contemporary Italyilaria w. biano9 How our children’s books help to negotiate good parenthood: A participatory discourse analysis of Dutch Islamic children’s books with Muslim authors and parentsAlex schenkels and paul mutsaers10 The Islamic literary field and its recent transformation in contemporary TurkeyZeynep TüfekçioğluIndex