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" Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary "
Mosarrap Hossain Khan
Young, Robert JC
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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805110
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TL49959
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2079421378; 10287997
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Yulianto, Wawan Eko
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Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary\ Mosarrap Hossain KhanYoung, Robert JC
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New York University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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English
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2017
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174
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Committee members: Bilgrami, Akeel; Gajarawala, Toral J.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-17035-3
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In this dissertation, <i>Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary</i>, 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 discourses of Muslim religiosity and secularity, which posit Muslims as ahistorical subjects operating in a vacuum. By foregrounding ordinary practices of illicit love, “modern” education, consumerism, and secular nationalism, the authors produce a discourse of engagement with the worldly. I trace these elucidations of everyday life, in order to move beyond the usual categories of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, ‘political Islam’, ‘religious subjectivity’, and ‘secular subjectivity’, sourced for analyzing Muslim experiences. Instead, I propose the conceptual category of “worldly subjectivity” for understanding Muslims’ negotiation with the secular in everyday experience. Between fundamental commitments to one’s religion and worldly desires, my dissertation foregrounds those inconsistencies that lie at the heart of Muslim subject formation.
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Religion; Literary translation; Armed forces; Subjectivity; English; War; Hindi language; Novels; Bengali; Foregrounding; Negotiation; Politics; Benue Congo languages; South Asian studies; Focus; Fiction; Colloquial language; Ideology; British Irish literature
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Everyday life;Novel;Ordinary;Religion;Secularism;South Asia
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Young, Robert JC
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EnglishNew York University
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