At Freedom's Limit : : Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament / / Sadia Abbas.
The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Argument
- 1. The Maintenance of Innocence
- 2. The Echo Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency
- 3. Religion and the Novel: A Case Study
- 4. How Injury Travels
- 5. Cold War Baroque: Saints and Icons
- 6. Theologies of Love
- Notes
- Index