Fundamentalism and Literature [Hardcover]

This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationshipIntroduction: Fundamentalism and Literature; C.Pesso-Miquel & K.Stierstorfer PART I: HISTORICAL PROBES To the Shore of Tripoli': Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain; G.Campbell Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church; A.Gardiner PART II: THE MANY GUISES OF FUNDAMENTALISM: EXPANDING VISIONS Different Aspects of Fundamentalism and Tolerance in Ayub Khan Din's East is East , Last Dance at Dum Dum , Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me ; N.Alemdaroglu The 'Aesthetics' of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English; A.St?hler PART III: BEYOND THE BINARY: LITERARY INTERVENTIONS IN POLARIZATION Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album ; W.O'Shea-Meddour From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters ; C.Pesso-Miquel Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political Critic; S.Peters PART IV: FUNDAMENTALISM IN POST/MODERNIST CONTEXTS Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism; K.Stierstorfer Literature as the Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi; H.Ramsey-Kurz Never Better Than When Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms; K.Cope

A probing, lucid, and versatile examination of the crucial phenomenon marking our time. Fair-minded and many-sided, the work brings us distinctly closer to understanding the protean shapes of fundamentalism, its elusive motives and terrifying powers. - Ihab Hassan, Emeritus Vilas Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

This book brings together a series of useful and diverse approaches to what is clearly a crucial issue of olSD