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▼a Khan, Mosarrap Hossain. |
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▼a Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b New York University.,
▼c 2017 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2017 |
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▼a 174 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Robert JC Young. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2017. |
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▼a In this dissertation, Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary, I argue that the deliberate focus of South Asian Muslim Anglophone as well as vernacular authors on the quotidian, instead of extraordinary events, subverts rigid binary |
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▼a The project is divided into five chapters. The Introduction, "Muslim Fictions and Everyday Life," critiques existing scholarship on Muslim practices conceptualized through the binaries of religiosity and secularity and explains at length the con |
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▼a In Chapter 1, "The Form of the Novel and the Notion of the Sacred and the Secular," I analyze Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), to critique the accepted notion, following Lukacs, that the novel is an inherently secular form and |
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▼a The next three chapters analyze Anglophone as well as vernacular fictions written by Muslim writers in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh to illustrate the different modes of negotiation with the secular in three countries of the Indian sub-contine |
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▼a I conclude by arguing that the depiction of everyday life in subcontinental 'Muslim fictions' is tied to realism, which is invested with a futurity, a forward movement in which the alternative fictional world created by these novelists envisions |
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▼a School code: 0146. |
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▼a British & Irish literature. |
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▼a South Asian studies. |
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▼a New York University.
▼b English. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-12A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0146 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2017 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14996597
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▼a 201812
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▼a 관리자 |