[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Literary Representations of "British Muslims" (UK) (7/30/07; 11/8/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF "BRITISH MUSLIMS"
- A One-day Colloquium -

Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK
Thursday 8th November 2007

Call for Papers:

In the current political climate, an increasingly complex debate is
emerging about what it means to be "British Muslim". Yet criticism of
the UK's migrant writing still tends to subsume religious identity
under such categories as ethnicity, nationality, hybridity and "race."
In an effort to develop a more appropriate critical vocabulary, this
colloquium will examine representations of Islam and specific Muslim
communities in recent British writing. It will explore the diversity of
Islam, both as a religion and a civilization, as it is represented in a
rich and often contestatory body of writing.

Possible paper topics may include but are not limited to:

* Transculturalism in British Muslim writing
* Formal Strategies in Representing Belief
* Literary Stereotyping of the Islamist or Terrorist
* The Satanic Verses Affair and its Legacies
* Strengths and Limitations of "secular criticism"
* Literary Production: Questions of Publication and Audience
* Representations of: 	Islam's Proscribed and
                         Prescribed Practices
			Radical Politics amongst
                         British Muslims
			Racism, Islamophobia, and
                         Social Exclusion
			Islam and Gender Politics
			Atheism vs. Faith
			The "War on Terror"
			British Muslims and
                         Globalization


Please send abstracts of 200 words, with brief
biographical information (via Word attachment) to
Dr Claire Chambers:
c.chambers at leedsmet.ac.uk or School of Cultural
Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter,
Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK

Deadline: 30 July 2007

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