Britain Through Muslim Eyes

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)

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: TRAVELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY1. Orientalism in Reverse: Early Muslim Travel Accounts of Britain 2. 'Truly a person progresses by travelling and interacting with different peoples': Travelogues and Life Writing of the Twentieth CenturyPART II: TRAVELLING FICTION3. 'I haf been to Cambridge!': Muslim Fictional Representations of Britain, 1855?1944 4. 'England-returned': British Muslim Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s 5. Myth of Return Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s: 'A bit of this and a bit of that'The Myth of ConclusionBibliographyIndex