Table of Contents:
“…Introduction: Poetics of Visibility, Visible Poetics -- The Disease as Queer Cure: Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War -- Blue Notes and Accented Rhythms: Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz -- Sign after Sign: Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf -- Anagrams of Identity: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land -- Reframing Infidelity: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent -- Conclusion: Arab American Polyphonics.…”
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“…Fontaine -- Honey and milk underneath your tongue : chanting a promised land / Jacqueline Osherow -- "Where has your beloved gone?" …”
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2016
Table of Contents:
“…Introduction: the paradox of religion in America and American literature -- Uncertain faith for Islamic others after 9/11: capitalist and religious fundamentalisms in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Laila Halaby's Once in a promised land -- Beyond religious, atheistic, and capitalist fundamentalisms for post-9/11 Jewish others: the rhetoric of art in Philip Roth's Everyman and Exit ghost -- Toward a post-9/11 rhetoric of Catholic mystery: terror and fundamentalism in Don Delillo's "Baader-Meinhof" and Point omega -- Emergent varieties of religious experience from a Protestant perspective: fundamentalist, fanatical, and hybrid faith in John Updike's "varieties of religious experience" and Terrorist -- Between Protestantism and pantheism: post-9/11 rhetorics of nature, science, and religion in Barbara Kingsolver's Small wonder and Flight behavior -- Conclusion: memorializing 9/11 through interfaith dialogue with and about American fiction about religion.…”