Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988

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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).

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 books are British Muslim Fictions (2011) and the co-edited collection Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (2014).

"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)