Suhaiymah Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Postcolonial Banter

Ramisha Rafique (The Nottingham Trent University)

Ed. by Jenni Ramone, The Nottingham Trent University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2019

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance; Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s poetry collection

Postcolonial Banter

(2019) explores identity, racism, and Islamophobia. Her poems discuss the process of decolonisation and inequality in academic and economic spaces. In his review of this book, Kehinde Andrews reflects that “we need poetry like this to light a fire under the racial status quo”. He also describes Manzoor Khan as having “written the lyrics of rebellion for this restless generation” (Manzoor-Khan, 2019). Alongside these wider motifs the collection explores identity, racism, and Islamophobia through a critique of existing narratives regarding racism, an exploration of systemic Islamophobia, discussions of the function of the nation-state, and secularist visions of identity. The poems in the collection mutually discuss…

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Citation: Rafique, Ramisha. "Postcolonial Banter". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 December 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41035, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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