Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film - Paperback

by Alberto Fernández Carbajal (Author)

This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.

Front Jacket

Queer Muslims are usually the subjects of both Islamophobia and homophobia. This timely study considers how they represent themselves in their own terms. Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film approaches queer Muslims as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective via the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Sara Ahmed, Gayatri Gopinath and Jasbir K. Puar, amongst others, the book explores depictions of queer Muslims in the West as disorganising the social categories that make up contemporary western societies. The book takes three main focal points: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. These thematic clusters allow us to appreciate the nuances and complexities of the artistic depiction of queer Muslims' mundane challenges to western Islamophobia and Islamicate heteronormativity. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced general readers interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora, and postcolonialism; final-year undergraduate students and postgraduate students at all levels will find it a valuable contribution to a controversial debate.

Back Jacket

Queer Muslims are usually the subjects of both Islamophobia and homophobia. This timely study considers how they represent themselves in their own terms.

Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film approaches queer Muslims as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective via the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Sara Ahmed, Gayatri Gopinath and Jasbir K. Puar, amongst others, the book explores depictions of queer Muslims in the West as disorganising the social categories that make up contemporary western societies. The book takes three main focal points: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. These thematic clusters allow us to appreciate the nuances and complexities of the artistic depiction of queer Muslims' mundane challenges to western Islamophobia and Islamicate heteronormativity.

This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced general readers interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora, and postcolonialism; final-year undergraduate students and postgraduate students at all levels will find it a valuable contribution to a controversial debate.

Author Biography

Alberto Fernández Carbajal is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton