Fundamentalism and Literature

1. Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature
Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Klaus Stierstorfer

Part I. The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions

2. “To the Shore of Tripoli”: Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain
Gordon Campbell

3. Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church
Anne Barbeau Gardiner

4. The “Aesthetics” of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English
Axel Stähler

Part II. Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization

5. Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi’S the Black Album
Wendy O’shea-Meddour

6. From Enlightenment To The Prison Of Light: Reverting To Parsi Fundamentalism In Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters
Catherine Pesso-Miquel

7. Doubling Of Parts: Arundhati Roy As Novelist And Political Critic
Susanne Peters

Part III. Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts

8. Tariq Ali And Recent Negotiations Of Fundamentalism
Klaus Stierstorfer

9. Literature as the “Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text”1 or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
Helga Ramsey-Kurz

10. Never Better Than Late: The Left Behind Series And The Incongruities Of Fundamentalist Idealisms
Kevin L. Cope

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Islam