"Our Various Hues of Brown": The Politics of Polyvocality in Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish
This essay examines the politics of polyvocality in Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish, a novel that shares with many others the aim to showcase the diversity of voices within Islam. While polyvocality is often celebrated as a challenge to representations of Islam as a monolith, American Dervish il...
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