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Muslim American Hyphenations

Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century
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The essays in Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century contest the lack of nuance in the public debates about American Islam and reclaim a self-determined identity by twenty-first century Muslim American writers, artists, and performers. Muslim American Hyphenations covers a wide spectrum of cultural representation based upon a shared religion that encompasses multiethnic and polylinguistic communities in the American landscape, challenging both the sacred-secular binary and the confines of multiculturalism. The contributors to this volume explore the codes of belonging in different American spheres, from transnational and local negotiations of immigrant and domestic Muslim Americans with nation, race, class, and gender, to the performance of faith in the creative manifestations of these identities. In their analyses, these scholars propose that Muslim American cultural productions provide an alternative space of dissensus and the utopian potentiality of connections with other minoritarian communities.
Mahwash Shoaib is instructor of American Literature at Central Piedmont Community College.
In this thoughtful volume, scholars brilliantly reflect on the multiple voices of Muslim artists from literature and film to TV and music, showing the vitality, depth, and inclusiveness of their works and visions. This ambitious collection fills a critical void and offers a sophisticated look at the incredibly dynamic and multifaced Muslim American imagination. A must read, it is a wonderful, essential contribution.--Sylviane A. Diouf, Brown University
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