Writing about Islam

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_415
dc.creator	Brioni Simone
dc.creator	Fazel Shirin Ramzanali
dc.title	Writing about Islam. Narrating the Diaspora
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora (Writing About Islam. Narrating a Diaspora) is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. The central part of this volume – both symbolically and physically – includes Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s reflections on the discrimination of Muslims, and especially Muslim women, in Italy and the UK. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, this section invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, this section urges us to consider minorities not just as ‘topics’ of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin’s invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume continues with a dialogue between the co-authors and discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a ‘colonial model’ of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer. The last chapter also asserts that immigration literature cannot be approached with the same expectations and questions readers would have when reading ‘canonised’ texts. A new critical terminology is needed in order to understand the innovative linguistic choices and narrative forms that immigrant writers have invented in order to describe a reality that has lacked representation or which has frequently been misrepresented, especially in the discourse around the contemporary Muslim diaspora.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-04-22
dc.dateAccepted	2020-03-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-410-3/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8860
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9387
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-410-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-411-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Belonging
dc.subject	Belonging
dc.subject	Collaboration
dc.subject	Collaboration
dc.subject	Collaboration
dc.subject	Cultural market
dc.subject	Cultural market
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Diversity
dc.subject	Diversity
dc.subject	Diversity
dc.subject	Hybridity
dc.subject	Hybridity
dc.subject	Immigration literature
dc.subject	Immigration literature
dc.subject	Islam
dc.subject	Islam in Europe
dc.subject	Islam in Europe
dc.subject	Islam in Italy
dc.subject	Islam in Italy
dc.subject	Islamophobia
dc.subject	Islamophobia
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Multiculturalism
dc.subject	Multiculturalism
dc.subject	Points of view
dc.subject	Points of view
dc.subject	Religious coexistence
dc.subject	Religious coexistence
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Transnational Italian Studies
dc.subject	‘Minor’ literature

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Writing about Islam

Narrating the Diaspora

Simone Brioni Stony Brook University, USA

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel Scrittrice

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abstract

Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora (Writing About Islam. Narrating a Diaspora) is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. The central part of this volume – both symbolically and physically – includes Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s reflections on the discrimination of Muslims, and especially Muslim women, in Italy and the UK. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, this section invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, this section urges us to consider minorities not just as ‘topics’ of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin’s invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume continues with a dialogue between the co-authors and discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a ‘colonial model’ of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer. The last chapter also asserts that immigration literature cannot be approached with the same expectations and questions readers would have when reading ‘canonised’ texts. A new critical terminology is needed in order to understand the innovative linguistic choices and narrative forms that immigrant writers have invented in order to describe a reality that has lacked representation or which has frequently been misrepresented, especially in the discourse around the contemporary Muslim diaspora.

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April 22, 2020

Accepted

March 10, 2020

Submitted

Feb. 20, 2020

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978-88-6969-410-3

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-411-0

Keywords

Hybridity • Multiculturalism • Transnational Italian Studies • ‘Minor’ literature • Islam in Italy • Diversity • Memory • Islamophobia • Cultural market • Islam in Europe • Points of view • Islam • Religious coexistence • Translation • Collaboration • Belonging • Immigration literature • Diaspora

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Simone Brioni Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

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1 Scritture meticce – Narrazioni diasporiche

Simone Brioni

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2 Io e l’Islam

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3 A quattro mani

Note collaborative sull’industria culturale, la scrittura diasporica, e la pratica decoloniale

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