In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing.

For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing , contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad�...

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Main Author: John Waldmeir

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies in Religion and the Arts 13.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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Call Number: PS231.I85

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page /
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  • Contents /
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  • Acknowledgments /
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  • Introduction-Words beneath Words /
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  • Traveling with an American Qur'an: Sandow Birk and the Thirty Mosques in Thirty Days Project /
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  • "Learning to Pray All Over": The Body in Mohja Kahf's Poetry and Fiction /
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  • "Are You a Muslim or Will You Love?" Dropping the Veil in Kazim Ali's Writing /
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  • Begun in Mystery: Ayad Akhtar's Fiction and Drama /
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  • "Sometimes I Feel Me": Between Faith and Resistance in the Poetry of Blackamerican Islam /
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  • Where Hope Begins: The Intertextual Worlds of Rabih Alameddine /
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  • Conclusion-"Half In, Half Out": Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the Rescue /
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