{"id":24,"date":"2021-06-03T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:32:42","slug":"24-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Or outside the white gaze? On her own terms? Or outside the narrative built around us by the media and governments?&#8221; <\/span><em style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400;\">(Mariam Khan, &#8216;Introduction&#8217;, <\/em><span style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s Not About the Burqa<\/span><em style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400;\">, p. 1).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Focusing on writing by women deemed &#8216;popular&#8217; rather than &#8216;literary&#8217;, this network engages with under-studied popular and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, comics, graphic novels, detective fiction, Young Adult, fantasy, autobiography, memoir, and science fiction) from a range of established critical disciplinary perspectives and across languages.<\/p>\n<p>The project is interested in looking more closely at this writing alongside its production context through a focus on publishers and editors.<\/p>\n<p>The project asks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does genre act as a &#8216;filter&#8217; for Muslim women&#8217;s writing?<\/li>\n<li>What opportunities do popular and genre fiction provide for challenging the dominant &#8216;filters&#8217; on Muslim women&#8217;s voices?<\/li>\n<li>What contexts and pressures do popular fiction publishing and production models provide?<\/li>\n<li>How are Muslim women authors engaging with and transforming established narrative and genre forms?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These areas of expertise have not been brought together substantially before &#8211; this is an opportunity to gather disparate expertise and bring together a global network of scholars to discuss and produce focused work on this topic. By bringing together experts on popular fiction, publishing and genre, with established researchers of Muslim women&#8217;s writing, this networking project aims to produce new and much-needed collaborative interventions and establish a critical platform for future research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Or outside the white gaze? On her own terms? Or outside the narrative built around us by the media and governments?&#8221; (Mariam Khan, &#8216;Introduction&#8217;, It&#8217;s Not About the Burqa, p. 1). Focusing on writing by women deemed &#8216;popular&#8217; rather &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"About the Network\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/#more-24\" aria-label=\"More on About the Network\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1579,"featured_media":64,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-featured-image-padding"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1.jpeg",1200,424,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-300x106.jpeg",300,106,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-768x271.jpeg",768,271,true],"large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-1024x362.jpeg",1024,362,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1.jpeg",1200,424,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1.jpeg",1200,424,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-600x400.jpeg",600,400,true],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/09\/cropped-IMG_20190606_130127-scaled-1-600x424.jpeg",600,424,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>&#8220;When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? 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