Full Description
The essays in Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century contest the lack of nuance in the public debates about American Islam and reclaim a self-determined identity by twenty-first century Muslim American writers, artists, and performers. Muslim American Hyphenations covers a wide spectrum of cultural representation based upon a shared religion that encompasses multiethnic and polylinguistic communities in the American landscape, challenging both the sacred-secular binary and the confines of multiculturalism. The contributors to this volume explore the codes of belonging in different American spheres, from transnational and local negotiations of immigrant and domestic Muslim Americans with nation, race, class, and gender, to the performance of faith in the creative manifestations of these identities. In their analyses, these scholars propose that Muslim American cultural productions provide an alternative space of dissensus and the utopian potentiality of connections with other minoritarian communities.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: Muslim Imagination in America
Mahwash Shoaib
Section 1: The Literary Arts
Chapter 1: Cultivating Muslim Social Critique: The Twenty-First Century Novels of Nafisa Haji and Randa Jarrar
Ibtisam M. Abujad
Chapter 2: Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Belonging in Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace
Farisa Khalid
Chapter 3: " , .": Space and Justice in the Poetry of Solmaz Sharif
Summer Farah
Chapter 4: Multiple Nations under Allah: Conversion and Literary Nationalism in Michael Muhammad Knight's Journey to the End of Islam
Shirin Nadira
Section 2: The Visual and Performing Arts
Chapter 5: Muslim Superhero and American Multiculturalism
Esra Mirze Santesso
Chapter 6: Reel Bad Muslims: Negotiating the African American Muslim Identity in TV and Film
Rebecca Hankins
Chapter 7: Kuwaisiana: A Country Made Through Music
Sarah Juma
Chapter 8: "Heart Heat," Ishq, Eros, and Radical Love in the Collaborative Artwork of Gazelle Samizay, Laimah Osman, and Sahar Muradi
Zohra Saed
