...Danielle Haque This essay argues that contemporary discourses around postsecularism in literature do not adequately express the concerns of Muslim American writers who are reimaging how they can practice their religion within the specificity of the US secular context. It examines the ways Mohja...

...Kenyon Gradert The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction . By Jeffrey Einboden . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 87.00 ; e-book available. Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic...

... a contentious, religiously diverse society. The multicultural community that women writers envisioned, however, was founded on the subordination of religious and racial others; moreover, women's Holy Land writings conflated religious and racial otherness as a way of containing difference. The Muslim-Arab became...

... this claim by reading liberal and conservative statements about Muslims in the contemporary United States alongside the writings of Roger Williams, whom many consider to be the father of American pluralism. I argue that the modern rhetoric of religious diversity mirrors the eschatological structure...

... warriors, most notably the Muslim martyrs ready to die for their faith. Viewing such militancy as not just appropriate but necessary within a constitutional arrangement whose founding violence is suppressed, he anticipated a key strain of contemporary postsecular scholarship (led by Talal Asad) that sees...

..., and Morrison’s Song of Solomon. Based on interviews conducted among the Gullah for Drums and Shadows, the Georgia guidebook of the Work Projects Administration (1940), and on his own field trips, Cartwright reconstructs the presence of a Senegambian and Muslim ancestry that reemerges in, for example...

... the United States against stateless Muslim actors and the Islamic states that give them harbor.2 Indeed, the two eras have striking parallels. The just-marked two-hundredth anniversary of the United States’ first foreign military engagement, the Tripolitan War (1801–1805), presents...

..., Jennifer. Review: Chakkalakal, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, 400–402. Review: Reynolds, Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance, 400–402. Haque, Danielle. “The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature,” 799...

... critiques of Zionism in the Palestinian American autobiographies of Edward Said, Aziz Shihab, and Fawaz Turki and engagements with the discourses of US Orientalism and Muslim feminism in the Egyptian American autobiographies of Ihab Hassan and Leila Ahmed. Other issues of transnational significance...

.... By contrast, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor’s is a critical and phil- osophical project, showing how black, white, and Muslim women writers reconceptualize both the present and the future in more open, “radically hospi- table” (19) narrative terms. McDonald focuses on the recent past, exploring feminism’s...

.... It is narrated from the perspective of a young Muslim. He, 166  American Literature along with his grandfather, father, and father’s friend, is driving across South Dakota (“the 1950s Lincoln / ninety miles an hour” [1]) after presiding at the titular funeral. As the sun begins to set, the speaker’s...

... (Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist) important in African American literature? Essays must be unpub- lished and follow MLA style. Contributors will receive two copies of the pub- lished book. Abstracts (of no more than 500 words) and a curriculum vitae should be sent by 1 March 2004 to Professor Jim...

... attributes our present anxiety over the integration of Muslims to a “lingering desire for moments of transcendence,” which are inevitably contaminated by Puritanism’s legacy of “projected homogeneity.” Can he—can we—imagine a “higher time” of nonhierarchical differences? Trigg examines only the conservative...

... of connection among Muslims in the Americas (Johnston 2012: 155). 11 Higginson was long mistakenly presumed to be the ghost writer of Parker s narrative (Katz 1974: 284 90). 12 Gilmore s introduction to Parker s narrative was signed E.K. using the pen name Edmund Kirke, under which he published a few pieces...

... present, so often the territory of the journalist, while at the same time eschewing the limitations of the sentimentalized past, or the alarums of dystopic predictions” (151). With Muslim protagonists and novels set in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, these writers were able to situate 9/11...

.... By contrast, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor’s is a critical and phil- osophical project, showing how black, white, and Muslim women writers reconceptualize both the present and the future in more open, “radically hospi- table” (19) narrative terms. McDonald focuses on the recent past, exploring feminism’s...

... by juxtaposing constructions of minorities and animals in order to expose the deeply ingrained assumptions sustaining both. Jin goes on to examine whether and how religion might be incorporated into multiculturalism through the work of the Hui Muslim author Zhang Chengzhi, and the Arab American author...

... on to examine whether and how religion might be incorporated into multiculturalism through the work of the Hui Muslim author Zhang Chengzhi, and the Arab American author Rabih Alameddine. Finally, she reads Yan Geling’s novel Fusang (2001) as an attempt to imagine subjectivity outside the bounds...

... did not. Despite the fact that a number of Muslim Syrians came to the United States, the Syrian immigration was largely figured as the outcome of Muslim persecution perpetrated by the “terrible Turk,” vilified in the context of the war.47 Syrians ultimately prevailed in their campaign...

...- tive essays such as ‘‘King: No Help to Peace’’ and ‘‘Malcom X: Better to Memo- rialize Benedict Arnold A particular treat for scholars of African American literature is a transcript of a 1961 interview with Schuyler, Malcom X., C. Eric Lincoln, and James Baldwin entitled ‘‘The Black Muslims...