TY - JOUR
T1 - Britain Through Muslim Eyes
T2 - An interview with Claire Chambers
AU - Valassopoulos, Anastasia
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Claire Chambers is a senior lecturer in global literature at the University of York. She is the author of Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780–1989 (2015) and British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011). She edited (with Caroline Herbert) Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014). In this 2017 interview with Anastasia Valassopoulos, she discusses her exploration of literary representations of Muslims in Britain and South Asia, and her engagement with audiences and scholars in that field. She also discusses her current writing and reflects on sources such as the Making Britain archive that have helped to shape her current work. Finally, Claire explores crucial questions around liberalism and contemporary multicultural politics.
AB - Claire Chambers is a senior lecturer in global literature at the University of York. She is the author of Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780–1989 (2015) and British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011). She edited (with Caroline Herbert) Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014). In this 2017 interview with Anastasia Valassopoulos, she discusses her exploration of literary representations of Muslims in Britain and South Asia, and her engagement with audiences and scholars in that field. She also discusses her current writing and reflects on sources such as the Making Britain archive that have helped to shape her current work. Finally, Claire explores crucial questions around liberalism and contemporary multicultural politics.
KW - British Asian writing
KW - British Muslim writing
KW - literary history
KW - post-9/11
KW - religion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048017366&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17449855.2018.1454708
DO - 10.1080/17449855.2018.1454708
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048017366
SN - 1744-9855
JO - Journal of Postcolonial Writing
JF - Journal of Postcolonial Writing
ER -