Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora

Chambers, Claire; Herbert, Caroline

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“…Mansoor (2014), in her reading of Muslim female subjects in South Asian English literature, explores alternative sources of agency which are not embedded in the universalist discourse of human rights or feminist thought. Similarly, Chambers and Herbert (2014) and Ahmed (2021) foreground the need to read and listen to the agency of Muslim women beyond religio-racist differences. Safdar and Yasmin (2021a, 2022a, 2022b), while examining the representation of Muslim women in Pakistani Anglophone literature, emphasize agentive subjectivity which is shaped by geographical mobility.…”

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“…This article builds on the emerging discourse that dispels Islamophobic views that have stereotyped and homogenized Muslims regarding gender and sexuality (Ahmed et al, 2012; Chambers and Herbert, 2014; Morey and Yaqin, 2011), and argues on the agentiveness of Muslim women specifically in decisions and choices regarding love/desire and marriage. Studies on Muslim women facing racist and Islamophobic violence in Western settings are numerous.…”

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Love and Marriage: Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and saffron

Safdar

Yasmin

2023

Cultural Dynamics

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Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. I aim to examine the subjectivity of Muslim women as explored in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Salt and Saffron regarding love/desire and marriage by drawing on the concepts of performativity and third space to intervene in the discourse of Muslim women’s gender subjectivity. I examine how the female protagonist (Aliya) transforms her consciousness of her rights and cultural norms into her battles for agency and expansive space for choice and decision in love and marriage without open confrontation against and submission to norms. This performative subjective position comes out as inclusive and agentive, re-signifying the norms and the individualist awareness into an indeterminate, third space of enunciation. I foreground the epistemology that interlaces mobility-shaped individualistic awareness and consciousness of norms to contradict the monolithic Muslim woman compliant/victim theoretical frame.

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Love and Marriage: Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and saffron

Safdar

Yasmin

2023

Cultural Dynamics

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The Musical Bridge—Intercultural Regionalism and the Immigration Challenge in Contemporary Andalusia

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Machin-Autenrieth

2019

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The ideals of tolerance and cultural exchange associated with the interfaith past of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) have become a symbol for Andalusian regionalism and for the integration of Moroccan communities. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in the context of music. In cities such as Granada, Moroccan and Spanish musicians actively promote the ideals of intercultural dialogue through the performance of repertoires such as flamenco and Arab-Andalusian music that allegedly possess a shared cultural history. In this article, we examine the interrelationship between music and ‘intercultural regionalism’, focusing on how music is used by public institutions to ground social integration in the discourse of regionalism. Against a backdrop of rising Islamophobia and the mobilization of right-wing populist and anti-immigration rhetoric both within Spain and internationally, the authors consider how music can be used to promote social integration, to overcome Islamophobia and to tackle radicalization. We advance two arguments. First, we argue that the musical interculturalism promoted by a variety of institutions needs to be understood within the wider project of Andalusian regionalism. Here, we note that musical integration of Spain’s cultural and historical ‘Other’ (Moroccans) into Andalusian society is promoted as a model for how Europe can overcome the alleged ‘death of multiculturalism’. The preferential way to achieve this objective is through ‘intercultural regionalism’, envisioned as the combination of regional identity-building and intercultural interactions between communities that share a common cultural heritage. Second, we assess some of the criticism of the efficacy of al-Andalus as a model for contemporary intercultural exchange. Combining approaches in political science and ethnomusicology, we focus on one case study, the Fundación Tres Culturas (FTC). Through interviews with figures within the FTC, we examine why this model has become partly insufficient and how it is borne out in the sorts of musical activities programmed by FTC that seek to move beyond the ‘andalusí’ myth. We conclude by recognizing the continuing regional and international importance of this myth but we question its integrating capacity at a time of radical political, economic and environmental upheaval.

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Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora

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Love and Marriage: Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and saffron

Love and Marriage: Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and saffron

The Musical Bridge—Intercultural Regionalism and the Immigration Challenge in Contemporary Andalusia

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