The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation (Lettre) - Softcover

Lisa Ahrens

 
9783837647693: The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation (Lettre)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837647692 ISBN 13: 9783837647693
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2019

Synopsis

This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations 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.

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About the Author

Lisa Ahrens (Dr. phil.) worked as a research assistant at the University of Paderborn where she taught English Cultural and Literary Studies.

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Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837647692
ISBN 13 
9783837647693
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
278