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

Lisa Ahrens

ISBN 10: 3837647692 / ISBN 13: 9783837647693

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation (Lettre)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837647692
• ISBN 13: 9783837647693
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 460 grams

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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.

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.