Representations of Muslim Masculinities in Contemporary British and American Diaspora Novels

这个项目的重点是在当代英国和美国侨民小说中的穆斯林男子气概的表征。该研究旨在揭示男性气质的规范价值观和社会实践如何进入叙事，以及它们如何在各种散居背景下的人物日常生活中传达男性气质和性的文化，社会和宗教规范。将男性气质视为一种身份类别，其话语和表演效果与年龄，性别，种族和阶级交叉，所选小说将散居的穆斯林人物描绘为高度复杂的交叉学科，挑战和质疑性别规范。虽然穆斯林流散主题的数字在当代文化和文学研究中获得了相当大的知名度，但拟议的项目在处理流散男性气质时避免了顺性别和以同性恋为中心的阅读，并提供了对移民经历的更细致入微的描述，包括异性恋，酷儿和跨性别角色。流散的穆斯林人物在他们的性别行为和他们与宗教的关系中占据了流动的空间。该项目以建构主义的方法塑造酷儿交叉性，旨在探索（i）男性气质在当代散居文学中的表达，体现和表现方式，以及（ii）穆斯林角色成为社会批判的代理人。预测这个项目的问题包括：英语文学中的穆斯林男子气概如何使性别、宗教、散居和性的交叉操作复杂化？在流散的性别和性经验中，流动性和约束性的条件是什么？穆斯林男性气质如何与国家和跨国背景的身份政治？当代英语小说中穆斯林男性气质的表现如何被批评界接受？拟议项目的理论框架将有助于（一）英语文学批评，（二）散居研究，（三）性别研究，（四）跨国性研究领域。

This project focuses on the representations of Muslim masculinities in contemporary British and American diaspora novels. The study aims to reveal how normative values and social practices around masculinity enter narratives, as well as how they communicate cultural, social, and religious norms of masculinity and sexuality in characters' accounts of daily life in various diasporic contexts. Treating masculinity as an identity category with discursive and performative effects operating in intersection with age, sexuality, ethnicity, and class, the selected novels represent Muslim characters living in diaspora as highly complex intersectional subjects challenging and problematizing gender norms. Although the figure of the Muslim diasporic subject has gained considerable visibility in contemporary cultural and literary studies, the proposed project avoids cis-gendered and gay-centred readings when dealing with diasporic masculinities, and offers a more nuanced account of migrant experiences that is inclusive of heterosexual, queer and trans characters. The diasporic Muslim characters occupy fluid spaces in both their gendered behaviours and their relationships with religion. Shaped by a constructivist approach to queer intersectionality, this project aims to explore the ways in which (i) masculinities are expressed, embodied, and performed in contemporary diaspora literature, and (ii) the Muslim characters become the agents of social critique. Questions predicating this project include:How do Muslim masculinities in Anglophone literature complicate the intersectional operations of gender, religion, diaspora, and sexuality?What are the conditions of fluidity and constraint in the diasporic experiences of gender and sexuality? How do Muslim masculinities relate to national and transnational contexts of identity politics?How are the representations of Muslim masculinities in contemporary Anglophone novel received critically?The theoretical framework of the proposed project will contribute to the fields of (i) Anglophone literary criticism, (ii) diaspora studies, (iii) gender studies, and (iv) transnational sexuality studies.