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The transformative potential of black British and British Muslim literature : heterotopic spaces and the politics of destabilisation

Ahrens, Lisa, author

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\"This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British societyby analysing represntations 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.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Transcript
• Subject: University of Oxford In literature. / English literature Black authors History and criticism. / English literature Muslim authors History and criticism. / Political stability Fiction. / Mosques Fiction. / Plantations in literature. / Public spaces in literature.
• ISBN: 9783837647693, 3837647692, 9783839447697, 3839447690

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR120.B55 A37 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE