Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Alberto Fernández Carbajal, Alberto Fernandez Carbajal

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This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-08
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMulticultural Textualities
Antal sidor296
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526151803

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Part I: Queering Islam1. Muslim Homosexualities, Diaspora, DisorientationPart II: Queer Interethnic Desire2. Queer Micropolitical Disorientation and Phenomenology in Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette3. Interstitial Queerness and the East African Ismaili Diaspora in the Films of Ian Iqbal Rashid4. Diasporas in Reverse: Queering Orientalism in Ferzan Özpetek’s Hamam: The Turkish BathPart III: Negotiating Islamic Gender5. Countermemories of Desire: Female Homosexuality and ‘Coming Out’ in Shamim Sarif’s I Can’t Think Straight6. Queering Ethnicity and British Muslim Masculinities in Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil7. At the Interstices between Secularism and Religiosity? Rolla Selbak’s Three VeilsPart IV: Narrating the Self in History8. Postcolonial Queer Melancholia, Sufism, and L’errance in the Autofictional Works of Abdellah Taïa9. The Druzification of History in Diasporic Fiction by Rabih Alameddine10. Queering Home and Sexuality in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of HomeConclusion

‘With astounding skill, Carbajal manages to carve a unique space for Muslim queerness within the diaspora—a space that he defines as quotidian, yet nonnormative, and makes intelligible that which is inconceivable within the strictures of empire... Alberto Carbajal’s monograph beautifully destabilizes assumptions of queer diasporic Muslim identity and seeks to not only illustrate the ways queer Muslims micropolitically redefine the hegemonic norms of heteronormative patriarchy, but also considers the multitude of ways they disorganize boundaries and categories within the everyday modes of action and affect.’Journal of Religion & Film