Fundamentalism and Literature

This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship.

Klause Stierstorfer is Professor of English at the University of Münster, Germany. He studied at the Universities of Regensburg and Oxford, received his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, trained as a secondary school teacher and became assistant professor at the University of Würzburg, from where he moved on to take up his professorships at Düsseldorf and, since 2004, at Münster. His publications include John Oxenford (1812-1877) as Farceur and Critic of Comedy (1996); (ed., introd., annot.), London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies. Oxford World’s Classics (2001); Konstruktion literarischer Vergangenheit (2001), and (series editor) Women Writing Home, 6 vols. (forthcoming 2006).
 
Catherine Pesso-Miquel is Assistant Professor in the English Department of the Sorbonne University in Paris. She received her D. Phil at the Sorbonne University, after studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her publications include Toiles trouées et désert lunaires dans Moon Palace de Paul Auster (1996), Alexander's Bridge de Willa Cather (2001), and numerous articles focusing on post-colonial literature and the contemporary British novel.

Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature--Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Klaus Stierstorfer * Part I: Historical Probes * To the Shore of Tripoli': Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain--Gordon Campbell * Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church--Anne Gardiner Part II: The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions * Different Aspects of Fundamentalism and Tolerance in Ayub Khan Din's East is East, Last Dance at Dum Dum, Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me--Nuvid Alemdaroglu * The 'Aesthetics' of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English--Axel Stähler * Part III: Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization * Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album--Wendy O'Shea-Meddour * From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters--Catherine Pesso-Miquel * Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political Critic--Susanne Peters * Part IV: Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts * Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism--Klaus Stierstorfer * Literature as the Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi--Helga Ramsey-Kurz * Never Better Than When Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms--Kevin Cope Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature--Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Klaus Stierstorfer * Part I: Historical Probes * To the Shore of Tripoli': Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain--Gordon Campbell * Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church--Anne Gardiner Part II: The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions * Different Aspects of Fundamentalism and Tolerance in Ayub Khan Din's East is East, Last Dance at Dum Dum, Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me--Nuvid Alemdaroglu * The 'Aesthetics' of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English--Axel Stähler * Part III: Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization * Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album--Wendy O'Shea-Meddour * From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters--Catherine Pesso-Miquel * Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political Critic--Susanne Peters * Part IV: Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts * Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism--Klaus Stierstorfer * Literature as the Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi--Helga Ramsey-Kurz * Never Better Than When Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms--Kevin Cope