Islam and Me : Narrating a Diaspora (Other Voices of Italy)

Fazel, Shirin Ramzanali/ Brioni, Simone (EDT)/ Burdett, Charles (FRW)

Rutgers University Press（2023/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 196 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978835825
• DDC分類 305.697

Full Description

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion­-where, even today, she and her children must seemingly prove they are Italian. 
 
In Islam and Me, Fazel tells her story and shares the experiences of other Muslim women living in Italy, revealing the wide variety of Muslim identities and the common prejudices they encounter. Looking at Italian school textbooks, newspapers, and TV programs, she invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants, and especially women, are depicted in both news reports and scholarly research. Islam and Me is a meditation on our multireligious, multiethnic, and multilingual reality, as well as an exploration of how we might reimagine national culture and identity so that they become more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist. 

 

Contents

Foreword 
Charles Burdett

An Introduction to a Meticcio Text 
Simone Brioni

Note on Translation and Alphabetization
Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni

Dear Italy

My Daily Islam 

Birmingham 

Islamophobia 

Contradictions 

A Dialogue on Memory, Perspectives, Belonging, Language, and the Cultural Market 
Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Coda: A Note about This Collaborative Project 

Acknowledgments

Notes 

References 

Notes on Contributors