TY - BOOK AU - Ahrens,Lisa TI - The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation T2 - Lettre SN - 9783839447697 AV - PR120.B55 A37 2019 U1 - 820.9896041 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - English literature KW - Black authors KW - History and criticism KW - Muslim authors KW - Mosques KW - Fiction KW - Plantations in literature KW - Political stability KW - Public spaces in literature KW - British Cultural Studies KW - British Muslim Literature KW - British Studies KW - Heterotopia KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature KW - Power KW - Space KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Section One: Theoretical Perspectives --; 1 Theoretical Framework: Perspectives on Power and Exclusion --; 2 Theorising (Interactive) Heterotopic Spaces in Black British and British Muslim Literature --; Section Two: Literary Representations of Heterotopic Spaces --; 3 The Mosque --; 4 The University of Oxford --; 5 The Plantation --; Section Three: Interactive Heterotopic Spaces --; 6 Unfamiliar Familiarity: Transforming Genres --; 7 Closeness and Distance: Creating Ideological Positions for the Reader --; Conclusion --; Works Cited; restricted access N2 - This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Diran Adebayo, David Dabydeen, Andrea Levy, and Bernardine Evaristo.Lisa Ahrens combines Foucault's theory of heterotopia with elements of Wolfgang Iser's reader-response theory to work out Black British and British Muslim literature's potential for destabilising exclusionary boundaries. In this way, new perspectives open up on the intersections between space, power and literature, intertwining and enriching the discourses of Cultural and Literary Studies UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447697?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839447697 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839447697/original ER -