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Xenophobia, the fear or dislike of strangers, can be seen throughout the course of history in the form of communal riots, racist attacks, religious hatred, and genocide. Hindu-Muslim riots in India, Sinhalese-Tamil tensions in Sri Lanka, ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia, purging of Shias and Sunnis in Iraq and Syria, skinheads attacking immigrants, and the Jewish holocaust in Europe are a few examples.
In The New Xenophobia, Tabish Khair studies this fear in ...
Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent’-Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Funny and sad, satirical and humane, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men -the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator -whose trajectories cross in Denmark. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi, despite his exterior ...
This book successfully addresses Indian English fiction without trying to fit it into a ‘postcolonial’ mould. Working with a redefined, Marxian concept—that of ‘alienation’. Khair presents a reading of contemporary Indian fiction in English that sets out to study whether it is possible to write in English about people who often speak little or no English. Employing the concept of ‘discourse’ and formulating class divisions in emblematic ...
This book successfully addresses Indian English fiction without trying to fit it into a ‘postcolonial’ mould. Working with a redefined, Marxian concept – that of ‘alienation’, Khair presents a reading of contemporary Indian English fiction in English that sets out to study whether it is possible to write in English about people who often speak little or no English. Employing the concept of ‘discourse’ and formulating class divisions in emblematic ...
Examine ghosh's fiction through separate critical essays by reported scholars in 6 countries which are grounded in the interests that infuse ghosh's fiction, history, science, discovery, travel, rationalism, subalternity agency. Invaluable for those interested in ghosh's work.