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Título
A Geography of Strangeness: Transcultural Personhood and Fractal Identity in Contemporary South Asian Muslim American Literature
Autor
Director o Tutor
Año del Documento
2022
Titulación
Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lenguas y Culturas en Contacto
Abstract
This dissertation carries out an epistemic inquiry of identity in South Asian Muslim
American literature published in the twenty-first century. The selection of works analyzed includes
five novels, two poetry collections, one memoir, and one collection of short stories, representing
different narrative forms and styles by eight South Asian Muslim American writers. The authors
have been selected for their work on the themes of displacement, identity, intergenerational
conflict, gender, and religion, to highlight the transcultural nature of the literary works and present
the fractal nature of the identity of literary characters and their discursive imaginations. The chosen
literary publications examine a range of identity theory concepts coupled with the material and
philosophical realities of the late modern world such as globalization, digital transformation, timespace compression, structuration, and reflexivity. Each author’s work is analyzed for the South
Asian Muslim American diaspora’s response to the transformations, contradictions, and challenges
confronting contemporary Islam as it moves forward in the twenty-first century. Far from
normalizing the identity of these diasporic individuals, the focus of this dissertation is to present
them as complex adaptive beings possessing and exhibiting fractal identities. Furthermore, by
incorporating facets of the Muslim American identity and Islamic identity, which have their unique
idiosyncrasies, worldviews, and cultural practices, this study attempts to present a more holistic
view of contemporary South Asian Muslim Americans and their fiction. Therefore, the core of this
project centers around the effects of displacement on identity formation moving towards an
existential model of fractal identities in these transcultural diasporic individuals across
generations, genders, and religion, highlighting sociologically and politically relevant themes.
Materias (normalizadas)
American literature
Literatura americana
English philology
Filología inglesa
Materias Unesco
5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
Departamento
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
Collections
- Tesis doctorales UVa [2292]
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