Outputs (4)

African Migration, Human Rights and Literature (2020)
Book
Banda, F. (2020). African Migration, Human Rights and Literature. Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509938377

The book looks at the topic of migration through the prism of law and literature. The author uses a rich mix of novels, short stories, literary realism, human rights and comparative literature to explore the experiences of African migrants and asylum... Read More about African Migration, Human Rights and Literature.

Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (2018)
Book
Yaqin, A., Morey, P., & Soliman, A. (Eds.). (2018). Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71309-0

This book critically engages with the contemporary breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the West. It argues that a crisis of trust currently hampers intercultural relations and obstructs full participation in citizenship an... Read More about Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions.

Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa (2017)
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Easton, K., & Attridge, D. (Eds.). (2017). Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283418

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings togethe... Read More about Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa.

Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 (2011)
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Morey, P., & Yaqin, A. (2011). Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061149

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the... Read More about Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11.