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Mastering Slavery

Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives

In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. She explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological--and literary--crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.

I mean this to indicate a state of interior consciousness, obviously at odds with
external conditions—a consciousness and conditions that have their tense
encounters in Drumgoold's narrative. Drumgoold wrote in 1897, one year after
the ...

Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840

A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era’s thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its overseas empire. Garcia shows that writers such as Edmund Burke, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not only were influenced by international events in the Muslim world but also saw in that world and its history a viable path to interrogate, contest, and redefine British concepts of liberty. This deft exploration of the forgotten moment in early modern history when intercultural exchange between the Muslim world and Christian West was common resituates English literary and intellectual history in the wider context of the global eighteenth century. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.

In the wilderness of Lebanon, these nomadic people established an egalitarian
commune. Lacking magistrates and priests, their Islamic republic practices equal
labor and mutual love, and, “acknowledging no laws but those of ...

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

Sustained engagement with the Islamic world during this period also
encompassed the Persian and Mediterranean realms bordering the Ottomans,
though involvement with the Islamic empire of the Mughals was minimal.2 These
ties affected ...

Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

Idea, Nation, State

Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia years, and post-9/11 Pakistan, as well as pervasive themes, including ethnonationalist tensions, the zamindari system, and conspiracy thinking. The book offers a range of representations of how and whether collective belonging takes shape, and illustrates how the Pakistani novel in English, often overshadowed by the proliferation of the Indian novel in English, complements Pakistani multi-lingual literary imaginaries by presenting alternatives to standard versions of history and by highlighting the issues English-language literary production bring to the fore in a broader Pakistani context. It goes on to look at the literary devices and themes used to portray idea, nation and state as a foundation for collective belonging. The book illustrates the distinct contributions the Pakistani novel in English makes to the larger fields of postcolonial and South Asian literary and cultural studies.

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Islamic state?

Romanticism and the Rise of English

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized—a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only in a history of English, but also in a recovery of major events shaping English studies as a coherent discipline. This book points to new directions in literary criticism by arguing for the need to reconceptualize authorial agency in light of a broadened understanding of linguistic history.

Yet his students' descriptions of his pedagogy are notable in two respects. first,
using hales provided another venue for iqbal's characteristic movement back and
forth between european and islamic sources; just as his philosophical writings ...

The Challenge of Teaching English in Indonesian's Muhammadiyah Universities (1958-2005)

Mainstreaming Gender Through Postcolonial Muslim Women Writers

language teaching is a highly Islamic political project which inevitably makes
classrooms become cultural and political sites. Muhammadiyah saw that better
access to English can be a better solution to global inequalities. Despite
intercultural ...

The Malay Hikayat Miʿrāj Nabi Muḥammad

The Prophet Muḥammad’s Nocturnal Journey to Heaven and Hell. Text and Translation of Cod. Or. 1713 in the Library of Leiden University

The Malay version of The Prophet Muḥammad’s Nocturnal Journey to Heaven and Hell has never been published in Malay or in English Translation. The book wants to enhance interest in this important text in the global Islamic literary tradition.

Muhammad. Transcription of Manuscript Cod. Or. 1713 in the Library of Leiden
University Th. C. van der Meij and N. Lambooij Alamat inilah hikayat yang
empunya bapa Busu(a)k di Tinggi1 orang Bali tulen. Bismillah all-rahman all-
rahim ...

Mencari Emas

Alexis masih berusia delapan tahun ketika ia bersama adiknya Laure menyaksikan ayahnya bangkrut dan bersamaan itu berkembang pula sebuah mimpi “gila”-nya: menemukan emas yang disembunyikan Bajak Laut di pulau Rodrigues. Setelah menginjak usia dewasa, ia meninggalkan pulau Maurisius dengan menumpang kapal Zeta untuk mencari harta karun itu. Pencarian yang penuh khayalan, keputusasaan. Hanyalah cinta tanpa suara dari gadis penduduk asli (Manaf), Ouma, yang merintang Alexis dari rasa kesepian. Lalu meletuslah perang dunia yang dilewatinya di Prancis (dalam pasukan Inggris). Pada tahun 1922, ia kembali ke pulau Maurisius dan bergabung lagi dengan Laure serta menyaksikan Mam meninggal. Selanjutnya ia hidup menutup diri di Mananava. Namun, Ouma melepaskan diri dan lenyap. Ternyata Alexis memerlukan tiga puluh tahun untuk memahami bahwa harta karun itu hanya ada jauh di dalam dirinya sendiri, dalam cinta dan cinta akan kehidupan, dalam keindahan dunia.

Di kejauhan sudah terlihat cahaya pandu penunjuk jalan. Malam telah tiba di
lereng utara gunung itu. Kekhawatiranku telah reda. Sekarang aku segera ingin
turun. Kapal itu meluncur, semua terpal dilipat, aku memandang bendungan
yang ...

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Tempest and Other Late Romances

Now at sixty-four volumes, the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to the teaching of the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods of presentation that they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods of presentation that they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

Modern South Asian Literature in English

Looks at the work of fifteen authors who were born in India, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka, and whose work is based at least partly there, including R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy.

The passages about Pakistan foreshadow the portrait of that nation he would
create in his next novel. Shame (1983) is a scarifying satire of the history of
Pakistan. It is a much shorter novel than Midnight's Children, and it is tempting to
recommend beginners to start with it; yet it lacks much of the charm and humor of
his earlier novel. If Rushdie has a love/hate relationship with India, his feelings
toward Pakistan are much more unambiguous. Rushdie's personal animosity to
the country's ...