Literature Against Fundamentalism

by Tabish Khair

Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.

Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are distinctive and necessary, because of the relationships between its material ('language') and its subject matter ('reality'). Although present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198919581
• ISBN13: 9780198919582
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.8"