Very few scholars make use of the term, and many authors to whom such a term might be applied are instead referred to as ‘ethnic authors’, ‘migrant fiction’, ‘Arab’ or ‘foreign literature’. MethodologyĢ‘Muslim literature’, the undertone to this study, has yet to be recognised as a distinct phenomenon. In the body of fiction this paper discusses, the characters live out the contradiction of dealing positively with the stigma caused by the New York terrorist attacks, by blurring the line of assimilation and displaying a multifaceted self to what extent this is successful, and how it can be interpreted in the wider field of Muslim writings, form some of the main areas of my enquiry. Notions of identity, uniformity, and conformity are crucial as to how Muslim women writers depict Muslim characters in the post-9/11 era. 1This article addresses literary writing by female Muslim authors.
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