Rivers of Ink

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-940662-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

In this series of illuminating essays, Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and its diaspora. Highlighting its quality and urgency, and authors' bold treatment of hot topics like Islamophobia, racism, and the culture industry, Chambers formulates a strong case for drawing this writing into the mainstream English canon. Chambers' voice is incisive and compelling as she analyses emerging as well as established writers working in various genres. This makes Rivers of Ink a necessary, clear summons for expansion to the ?eld of contemporary global literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- I: Play on Words

- 1. Writing Beyond Borders

- 2. Postcolonial Lives

- 3. 'To Love the Moor': Postcolonial Artists Write Back to Shakespeare's Othello

- 4. The Princess and the Priest: Richard Dawkins' Attack on Fairy Tales

- 5. Journalists in Fiction and Reality

- II: Pakistan's Cities and Regions

- 6. The Baloch Who Is Missing: Representations of Balochistan in Anglophone Prose

- 7. Holy Women, Waderas, and 'Weapons of the Weak': Sindh in Contemporary Women's Writing

- 8. 'Lahore Lahore Hai': Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's Urban Fiction

- 9. Literary Peshawar: From Kipling to the Present Day

- 10. On a Hair Trigger: Images of Kashmir in Literature

- 11. Isloo and Pindi on Page and Screen

- III: Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs

- 12. Torturing the 'Other': Who is the Barbarian?

- 13. Culture and the Arab Spring

- 14. Advocacy Without Footnotes: Pakistani Cultural Production and Human Rights

- 15. The Ugly Face of Attacks: Facing Up to Acid Violence in South Asian Writing

- 16. 'The Reality and the Record': Muslim Refugee Stories

- IV: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Racism in Britain

- 17. We Are Here Because You Were There

- 18. Early Twentieth-Century Muslim Women's Travel Accounts of Britain

- 19. Disorientation as Loss of the East: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall's Fiction

- 20. From 'England-Returned' to 'Myth of Return' to the Point of No Return

- 21. Islamophobia: Orwellian 'Newspeak' or Racially Inflected Hatred?

- 22. 'Colour-Blind' Nigel Farage Lives in a White-Washed World

- 23. Freedom as Floating or Falling

- 24. Writing Muslim Lives

- 25. Who Do YA Think You're Representing? Diversity in Young Adult Fiction

- 26. Laughing At Ourselves

- 27. Banglaphone Fiction: British Sylhetis in Writing by Londoni Authors

- 28. In Praise of the Chapaterati

- 29. Boris Johnson Lights Out for Virgin Territory

- 30. Fight the Bannonality of Evil

- V: Education, Theory, and the Creative Industries

- 31. A Fanonian Summer

- 32. Edward Said's Orientalism: Its Influence and Legacy

- 33. The Barbarians Are at the Gate: On Self-Construction and the 'Other'

- 34. Who's Saving Whom?: Postcolonialism and Feminism

- 35. Festal or Fecal?: The Global Literary Festival

- 36. The State We're In: Global Higher Education

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Claire Chambers is a well-known writer and literary critic. Her research focuses on modern literature from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, UK. Her publications include Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1989 (2015) and British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011). She is editor (with Dr Rachael Gilmour) of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and writes a regular literary column for the Dawn newspaper.