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" In-between identities : "
by John C. Waldmeir
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BL
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802614
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b622662
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| Main Entry
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Waldmeir, John Christian,1959-
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In-between identities : : signs of Islam in contemporary American writing /\ by John C. Waldmeir
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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Studies in religion and the arts ;; volume 13
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viii, 186 pages ;; 25 cm
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9004382534
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: 9789004382534
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9789004382541
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : words beneath words -- Traveling with an American Qur'an : Sandow Birk and the Thirty mosques in thirty days project -- "Learning to pray all over" : the body in Mohja Kahf's poetry and fiction -- Begun in mystery : Ayad Akhtar's fiction and drama -- "Are you a Muslim or will you love?" Dropping the veil in Kazim Ali's writing -- "Sometimes I feel me" : between faith and resistance in the poetry of Blackamerican Islam -- Where hope begins: the intertextual worlds of Rabih Alameddine -- Conclusion : "Half in, half out" : Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the rescue
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"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, however, because it refuses to admit the kind of ambiguity that follows from multiple interpretations, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad's revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur'anic notion of a divine "sign," for example, validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project"--
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American literature-- Muslim authors-- History and criticism
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American literature-- 21st century-- History and criticism
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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Islam in literature
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Muslims in literature
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810/820
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PS231.M87W35 2019
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