Travelling Islamophobia

Description

Traveling Islamophobia: The Politics of Faith, Landscape, and Persona in Among the Believers

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Conceptualizing Postcolonialism, Orientalism, Islamophobia and Travel Genre
3. Travel Text as a Sign, Discourse and Representation
4. The Politics of Faith, Landscape and Persona

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book discusses Islamophobia as the fear of the ‘Muslim other’ in geo-political cultural spheres that include specialized and popular conceptions and marginalized representations of Islam and of Muslims. It further argues that how the concept of Islamophobia builds up on postcolonial literary scholarship and how does colonial discourse dynamics reproduce in contemporary postcolonial travel writings of a postcolonial traveler V.S. Naipaul.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Khalid Mahmood is a Lecturer in English at International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). He received his MPhil and PhD degrees from the same University with specialization in ‘Representation of Islam and Muslims in Postcolonial Travel Genre’ and ‘Corpus Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Post 9/11 Media Discourse’ respectively. He has extensively presented his research at national and international symposia and has contributed to the world literature with publications appearing in national research journals. He has conducted frequent Hands-on-Training sessions in Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Stylistics, Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities in some of the leading universities across Pakistan. He is a part of Journal of Contemporary Poetics team at the Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Literature, IIUI.