
Writing British Muslims
The Rushdie affair, September 11 2001 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images have proliferated, reducing a heterogeneous minority group to a series of media soundbites.
This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent – including Salman Rushdie, H...
The Rushdie affair, September 11 2001 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images have proliferated, reducing a heterogeneous minority group to a series of media soundbites.
This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent – including Salman Rushdie, H...