Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2024.11

Mus­lim mas­culin­i­ties in lit­er­a­ture and film: tran­scul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and migra­tion in Britain
A cli­mate of Islam­o­pho­bia allows anx­i­eties about Mus­lim men liv­ing in and migrat­ing to Britain to endure. British Mus­lims men are often pro­filed in high­ly neg­a­tive terms or regard­ed with sus­pi­cion owing to their per­ceived reli­gious and cul­tur­al her­itage. But nov­els and films by British migrant and dias­po­ra writ­ers and film­mak­ers pow­er­ful­ly con­test these stereo­types, and explore the rich diver­si­ty of Mus­lim mas­culin­i­ties in Britain.
This book is the first crit­i­cal study to engage with British Mus­lim mas­culin­i­ties in this lit­er­ary and cin­e­mat­ic out­put from the per­spec­tive of mas­culin­i­ty stud­ies. Through close analy­sis of work by Mon­i­ca Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Guy Gunaratne, Sal­ly El Hosai­ni, Hanif Kureishi, Suhayl Saa­di, Kami­la Sham­sie, Zadie Smith, Zia Haider Rah­man and Salman Rushdie, Peter Cher­ry exam­ines how migrant and dias­po­ra pro­tag­o­nists nego­ti­ate their mas­culin­i­ty in a cli­mate of Islam­o­pho­bic and anti-migrant rhetoric. Cher­ry pro­pos­es a tran­scul­tur­al read­ing of these nov­els and films that expos­es how con­cep­tions of ‚British­ness‘, ‚Mus­lim­ness‘ and those of mas­culin­i­ty are unsta­ble and con­tin­gent con­structs shaped by migra­tion, inter­ac­tion with oth­er cul­tures, and glob­al and local pol­i­tics.
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Under­stand­ing Chi­nese wis­dom through char­ac­ters
Chi­nese is one of the rare lan­guages that was cre­at­ed thou­sands of years ago and has been in con­tin­u­ous use ever since. As lan­guage signs, Chi­nese char­ac­ters reflect how ancient Chi­nese res­i­dents observed and under­stood the uni­verse and them­selves. These char­ac­ters car­ry the fun­da­men­tal ideas of man and nature, which have fur­ther devel­oped into Chi­nese philoso­phies that have shaped Chi­nese per­son­al­i­ty traits and the land­scape of con­tem­po­rary Chi­na.
This book explores the ori­gin and evo­lu­tion of select­ed Chi­nese char­ac­ters that best rep­re­sent the cog­ni­tive process and core val­ues of Chi­nese cul­ture. The study of Chi­nese char­ac­ters pro­vides an insight into Chi­nese wis­dom of har­mo­ny, love and resilien­cy from which peo­ple draw strength in face of chal­lenges today.
The book is unique in its inclu­sion of fea­tured Chi­nese cal­lig­ra­phy in char­ac­ter stud­ies, account­ing for the aes­thet­ic enjoy­ment of tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese art in the his­to­ry of Chi­nese char­ac­ters’ evo­lu­tion.
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