Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film / Alberto Fernández Carbajal.

This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fernández Carbajal, Alberto (Author)
Other Authors: Yaqin, Amina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Multicultural textualities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Muslim homosexualities, diaspora, disorientation
  • Queer micropolitical disorientation and phenomenology in Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette
  • Interstitial queerness and the East African Ismaili diaspora in the films of Ian Iqbal Rashid
  • Diasporas in reverse: queering orientalism in Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam: the Turkish Bath
  • Countermemories of desire: female homosexuality and 'Coming Out' in Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight
  • Queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil
  • At the interstices between secularism and religiosity? Rolla Selbak's Three Veils
  • Postcolonial queer melancholia, Sufism, and L'errance in the autofictional works of Abdellah Taïa
  • The Druzification of history in diasporic fiction by Rabih Alameddine
  • Queering home and sexuality in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home.