Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise -- The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea -- Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure and Pilgrims...
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Paradises Lost: A Portrait of the Precolony in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise -- The Other Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence and By the Sea -- Situational Identities: Exiled Selves in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure and Pilgrims Way -- "Men with Civilizations but Without Countries ":Afro- Indians at History's End -- Revisiting Nuruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib -- A Typology of Political Islam: Religion and the State in Nuruddin Farah's Variations on theTheme of an African Dictatorship Trilogy. "Islam in the Eastern African Novel engages the novels of three important eastern African novelists--Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and M.G. Vassanji--by centering Islam as an interpretive lens and critical framework. Mirmotahari argues that recognizing the centrality of Islam in the fictional works of these three novelists has important consequences for the theoretical and conceptual conversations that characterize the study of African literature. The overdue and sustained attention to Islam in these works complicates the narrative of coloniality, the nature of the nation and the nation-state, the experience of diaspora and exile, the meaning of indigenaity, and even the form and history of the novel itself"--
