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The transformative potential of black British and British Muslim literature : heterotopic spaces and the politics of destabilisation /

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"This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British societyby analysing represntations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Diran Adebayo, David Dabydeen, Andrea Levy, and Bernardine Evaristo. Lisa Ahrens c...

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Main Author: Ahrens, Lisa (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2019]
Series:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Subjects:
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Muslim authors > History and criticism.
Political stability > Fiction.
Mosques > Fiction.
University of Oxford > In literature.
Plantations in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
University of Oxford.
English literature > Black authors.
English literature > Muslim authors.
Literature.
Mosques.
Political stability.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
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Summary:"This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British societyby analysing represntations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Diran Adebayo, David Dabydeen, Andrea Levy, and Bernardine Evaristo. Lisa Ahrens combines Foucault's theory of heterotopia with elements of Wolfgang Iser's reader-response theory to work out Black British and British Muslim literature's potential for destabilising exclusionary boundaries. IN this way, new perspectives open up on the intersections between space, power and literature, intertwining and enriching the discourses of Cultural and Literary Studies."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:277 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277).
ISBN:9783837647693
3837647692
9783839447697
3839447690