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1) Introduction
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1.1) Topic and aim of this study
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1.2) Theoretical framework, methodology and structure
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1.3) On the choice of works and central terms
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2) ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, multiculturalism and identity in a globalised world
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2.1) Point of departure
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2.2) Defining ‘fundamentalism’
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2.2.1) Findings of interdisciplinary research projects
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2.2.2) Family resemblances between different forms of religious fundamentalism
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2.2.3) Reasons for the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism
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2.3) Literary studies on the interrelationship between literature and fundamentalism
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2.4) Major media topics and political debates
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2.4.1) A ‘Clash of Civilizations’?
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2.4.2) Fundamentalist Islam against Western secularisation?
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2.5) Migration, integration and identity
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2.6) Controversial discourses
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2.6.1) ‘Orientalism’ and ‘Occidentalism’
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2.6.2) ‘Western liberalism’ as point of criticism
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2.6.3) Stereotypes and fears
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3) Ethical criticism and authorial responsibility
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3.1) Ethics
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3.2) Aesthetics
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3.3) A turn towards the ethical in literature and a “turn to the literary within ethics”
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3.4) Main tendencies in ethical criticism
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3.5) Man as “a story-telling animal”
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3.6) Towards a humanist approach: Martha Nussbaum’s Love’s Knowledge
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3.7) Towards a political approach: Issues of identity, hybridity and multiculturalism
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3.8) The role of the author
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3.8.1) The ‘intentional fallacy’ and author vs. reader-oriented criticism
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3.8.2) The authors’ background: Khadra, Hamid, Kureishi, Faulks
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4) Towards a synthesis of form and content
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4.1) Potential functions of literature and ethics in literature
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4.1.1) Cultural and historical context
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4.1.2) Literature as ‘cultural ecology’
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4.2) Current trends in narrative theory
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4.3) Cultural and postcolonial narratology
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4.4) Genette’s typology as a toolbox for a cultural interpretation
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4.5) Potential functions of selected narrative techniques and stylistic devices
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4.5.1) Point of view/perspective and multiperspectivity
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4.5.2) Relationships of contrast and correspondence and the use of irony
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4.5.3) Directing the readers’ sympathy
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5) Analyses
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5.1) ‘Soldiers of the truth’ and ‘Fantasy Finance’: Sebastian Faulks’ A Week in December and the different guises of fundamentalism
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5.1.1) The representation of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’
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5.1.2) Economic libertarianism as fundamentalist phenomenon
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5.1.3) Directing the sympathy of the reader
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5.1.4) A Week in December in the light of ethical criticism and ‘literature as cultural ecology’: the power of literature to change our perspective
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5.2) ... “there must be more to living than swallowing one old book”: Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album as a declaration of love for the freedom of the individual
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5.2.1) Fundamentalism as a bulwark against “drug-inspired debris” and “banal fantasies”?
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5.2.2) “Everybody’s free to feel good”: Consumerism and the pleasure principle
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5.2.3) “[T]he world was swirling, its compasses spinning”: Identity formation and crisis
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5.2.4): “[T]here must be more to living than swallowing one old book”: The Black Album in the light of ethical criticism and literature as ‘cultural ecology’
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5.3) A story of disappointed love and nostalgia: Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the power to subvert stereotypes by engaging the reader
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5.3.1) Islamic fundamentalism, the subversion of stereotypes and the creation of narrative ambiguity
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5.3.2) American nostalgia, Christianity and capitalism
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5.3.3) A “modern-day janissary” who refuses to “focus on the fundamentals”: identity and ‘fundamentalism’
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5.3.4) The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the light of ethical criticism and literature as cultural ecology
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5.4) The responsibility to transcend hatred: Yasmina Khadra’s The Sirens of Baghdad as expression of an indelible love for humanity
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5.4.1) “The sirens echoed in the silence of the night”: The lure of Islamic fundamentalism
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5.4.2) A war against “dim-witted cowboys”: Bedouin traditions vs. U.S. politics
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5.4.3) The protagonist’s turn to fundamentalist ideas
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5.4.4) The Sirens of Baghdad in the light of ethical criticism and literature as cultural ecology
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6) Outlook: “We seek attachments, however unfortunate”
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6.1) Islamic fundamentalism and its antipoles
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6.2) Explaining fundamentalism: the role of identity in radicalisation processes
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6.3) Ethical criticism and the importance of literature, art and the intellectual
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6.4) Potential functions as culture-critical metadiscourse, counter-discourse or reintegrative interdiscourse
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7) Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Appendix
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Interview with Sebastian Faulks, London, 14 October 2012
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Interview with Mohsin Hamid, Bonn – Lahore, 16 August 2012
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Initiating a Dialogue Through 'the Global Community on your Bookshelf' , page 143 - 304
5) Analyses
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Nina Liewald
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doi.org/10.5771/9783828869028-143
ISBN print: 978-3-8288-4072-0
ISBN online: 978-3-8288-6902-8
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