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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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EPUB |
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| Summary |
Star-studded and beautifully written, this collection offers diverse stories about love and desire by South Asian-heritage British Muslim women authors, including Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged) and Shelina Janmohamed (Love in a Headscarf). Although outsiders often expect Muslim women to be timid, conservative, or submissive, the reality is different. While some of these authors express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations, others use black humor and biting satire, or play with possibilities. Still others shade into the territory of a Muslim Fifty Shades of Grey, creating grey areas where the mainstream media sees only black and white. If grooming-gang scandals grab headlines, characters are more scandalized by suitors' sloppy personal grooming. Finding the right crimson lipstick for a date or the perfect power outfit for meeting a cheating ex-husband are commoner preoccupations than the news. Stylish but far from shallow, the stories also reflect on migration, racism, arranged marriage, gender differences, lesbian desire, bearding, and many other subjects. |
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Publisher metadata. |
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FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Romance fiction, English.
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Short stories, English -- Muslim authors.
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Short stories, English -- Women authors.
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Short stories, English.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Chambers, Claire, 1975- editor.
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Phillips, Richard, 1965- editor.
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Ali, Nafhesa, 1929- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781913109073 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9781913109073 |
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