This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980s. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.

Autorentext
KENAN CAYIR is Assistant Professor of sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Inhalt
Literature Identity and Politics The Turkish Literary Field: A Space of Struggle over Islam, Secularism, and Modernity Salvation Novels of the 1980s: Islamic Ideal for a Total Islamization of Society Salvation Novels in the Path to Collective Islamic Subjectivity New Novels of the 1990s: A Path to Muslim Subjectivity