A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1916467199 ISBN 13: 9781916467194

Casa editrice: Hoperoad Pub Ltd, 2020

Riassunto

Star-studded and beautifully written, this collection offers diverse stories about love and desire by South Asian-heritage British Muslim women authors, including Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged) and Shelina Janmohamed (Love in a Headscarf). Although outsiders often expect Muslim women to be timid, conservative, or submissive, the reality is different. While some of these authors express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations, others use black humor and biting satire, or play with possibilities. Still others shade into the territory of a Muslim Fifty Shades of Grey, creating grey areas where the mainstream media sees only black and white. If grooming-gang scandals grab headlines, characters are more scandalized by suitors’ sloppy personal grooming. Finding the right crimson lipstick for a date or the perfect power outfit for meeting a cheating ex-husband are commoner preoccupations than the news. Stylish but far from shallow, the stories also reflect on migration, racism, arranged marriage, gender differences, lesbian desire, bearding, and many other subjects.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Claire Chambers teaches postcolonial literature the University of York. Nafhesa Ali is a sociologist who researches gender, age, the life course, and methods. Richard Phillips is a geographer whose research interests include contemporary multiculturalism and the world after Empire. 

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Hoperoad Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1916467199
• ISBN 13: 9781916467194
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 249
• Redattore: Chambers Claire, Ali Nafhesa, Phillips Richard
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