عنوان

Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary

Number

TL49959

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mosarrap Hossain Khan

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Young, Robert JC

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

New York University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

174

Text of Note

Committee members: Bilgrami, Akeel; Gajarawala, Toral J.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-17035-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

New York University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

In this dissertation, Muslim Fictions: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ordinary, 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.

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

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Everyday life;Novel;Ordinary;Religion;Secularism;South Asia

Yulianto, Wawan Eko

Young, Robert JC

Subdivision

English

New York University

Call Number

2079421378; 10287997

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[Thesis]

276903

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