Cosmopolitanism and the unfollowable routines and rituals in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret:

Dass, Minesh

Title: Cosmopolitanism and the unfollowable routines and rituals in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret:
Creator: Dass, Minesh
Date Issued: 2017
Date: 2017
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142531
Identifier: vital:38088
Identifier: DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2017.1290382
Description: This article explores how Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret critiques the limited and severely uneven forms of hospitality that characterise post-9/11 Britain. It also examines how the text gestures towards the possibility of a non-violent, inclusive cosmopolitanism. The piece begins by relating recent debates surrounding the “War on Terror”, as well as Britain’s decision to leave the European Union to the novel’s major concerns. It then turns to the novel, and summarises incidents in which the principal character, Issa Shamshuddin, is traumatised and harmed by the Islamophobia and anti-immigration policies evident in the London portrayed in the text. Next, it turns to an analysis of the strange and irreproducible rituals of Issa’s neighbour, Frances. The article concludes that that these unfollowable rituals posit how a truly cosmopolitan society would function.
Format: 14 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Literary Studies
Relation: Dass, M., 2017. Cosmopolitanism and the Unfollowable Routines and Rituals in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret. Journal of Literary Studies, 33(1), pp.94-107.
Relation: Journal of Literary Studies volume 33 number 1 94 107 May 2017 1753-5387
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