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T1 A Geography of Strangeness: Transcultural Personhood and Fractal Identity in Contemporary South Asian Muslim American Literature
A1 Khorakiwala, Muqarram
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 American literature
K1 Literatura americana
K1 English philology
K1 Filología inglesa
K1 5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
AB This dissertation carries out an epistemic inquiry of identity in South Asian MuslimAmerican literature published in the twenty-first century. The selection of works analyzed includesfive novels, two poetry collections, one memoir, and one collection of short stories, representingdifferent narrative forms and styles by eight South Asian Muslim American writers. The authorshave been selected for their work on the themes of displacement, identity, intergenerationalconflict, gender, and religion, to highlight the transcultural nature of the literary works and presentthe fractal nature of the identity of literary characters and their discursive imaginations. The chosenliterary publications examine a range of identity theory concepts coupled with the material andphilosophical realities of the late modern world such as globalization, digital transformation, timespace compression, structuration, and reflexivity. Each author’s work is analyzed for the SouthAsian Muslim American diaspora’s response to the transformations, contradictions, and challengesconfronting contemporary Islam as it moves forward in the twenty-first century. Far fromnormalizing the identity of these diasporic individuals, the focus of this dissertation is to presentthem as complex adaptive beings possessing and exhibiting fractal identities. Furthermore, byincorporating facets of the Muslim American identity and Islamic identity, which have their uniqueidiosyncrasies, worldviews, and cultural practices, this study attempts to present a more holisticview of contemporary South Asian Muslim Americans and their fiction. Therefore, the core of thisproject centers around the effects of displacement on identity formation moving towards anexistential model of fractal identities in these transcultural diasporic individuals acrossgenerations, genders, and religion, highlighting sociologically and politically relevant themes.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55171
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55171
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-jul-2024