Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988 [Paperback]

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1. Orientalism in Reverse: Early Muslim Travel Accounts of Britain
2. 'Truly a person progresses by travelling and interacting with different peoples': Travelogues and Life Writing of the Twentieth Century
PART II: TRAVELLING FICTION
3. 'I haf been to Cambridge!': Muslim Fictional Representations of Britain, 1855?1944
4. 'England-returned': British Muslim Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s
5. Myth of Return Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s: 'A bit of this and a bit of that'
The Myth of Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Chambers combines literary history with biographical and critical analysis. & Chambers deals with a fascinating variety of texts covering over two centuries. & Chambers writes in an engaging jargon-free style that should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers & . (Wasafiri, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2017)

Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988, explores a fascinating selection of memoirs, travelogues, short stories and novels by writers of Muslim heritage. & Throughout, Chambers provides historical and biographical information to give further context to the writings she discusses. & Chambers has added a new and important dimension to literary studies on Muslim writing. (Newsline, April, 2016)

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous lÃo