Muslim Textualities: A Literary Approach to Feminism Kane Jean M.
Muslim Textualities: A Literary Approach to Feminism Kane Jean M. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Muslim women writers located in Europe and American entered the cultural mainstream.…
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Muslim Textualities: A Literary Approach to Feminism Kane Jean M.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Muslim women writers located in Europe and American entered the cultural mainstream. They did so not by rejecting veiling practices, but by adapting Muslim resources, concepts and visual tradition to empowerment narratives in popular media. Literary and visual productions negotiated static visual emblems of Islam, most prominently the veil.
Muslim Textualities argues for more flexible and capacious interpretation, with particular attention to visibility as a metaphor for political agency and to knowledge of cultural contexts. Mainstream reception of their works has often overlooked or misread these negotiations. This provocative volume aims to articulate Muslim female agency through clear and accessible analysis of the theory and concepts driving the interpretation of these works.
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