Muslims and Media Images

Farouqui, Ather [Athar Fārūqī] (Hrsg.):
Muslims and Media Images : news versus views / ed. by Ather Farouqui. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xvi, 354 S.
ISBN 9780195694956 / 0195694953
Rs. 695,00
US$ 15,11 (Eastern Book Corp.)

Beschreibung
The massive reach and influence of media commentary on incidents like 9/11, the 2005 terrorist attack on the London underground, the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, and the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, makes discussions on popular representations of Muslim peoples and cultures universally topical and relevant. The situation is particularly complex in India, where Muslims form an intrinsic part of democratic civil society, yet continue to carry the baggage of history, especially Partition.
   How do the media view Indian Muslims in an age of global Islamic extremism? How far is jihadi pan-Islamism a part of the popular Indian Muslim consciousness? How are Indian Muslims dealing with media distortions of a delicate, nuanced issue? This volume raises these pertinent questions and seeks answers to them.
   The contributors — well-known media commentators, scholars, and activists — focus on the politics of Muslim identity, the portrayal of the community in the media, and its relationship with civil society. They analyse the contours of mass politics—especially prevalent in northern India—based on the stereotyping of Muslims. The essays also discuss the challenges and concerns of a people wrecked by powerful internal churning and debates on identity. In fact, the increasing radicalization in the community in the face of heightened global mistrust and isolation is attributed to some of these tensions. [Verlagsinformation]

Besprechung von Shams Afif Siddiqi: „Make or mar“, in: The Telegraph (Calcutta), March 13, 2009 (Online verfügbar).

Inhalt
List of Tables. ix
Acknowledgements. xi
Introduction. 3
PART I: ENGLISH MEDIA: IMAGE AND DEPICTION
    1. Vinod Mehta: Muslims and Media Images: Where Things went Wrong. 25
    2. Rajni Kothari: Muslims and the Press: Some Reflections. 36
    3. Kuldip Nayar: Muslims and the Indian Press. 40
    4. Mrinal Pande: Indian Press: The Vernacular and the Mainstream Babel. 46
    5. Howard Brasted: Contested Representations in Historical Perspective: Images of Islam and Australian Press, 1950-2000. 58
    6. Chandan Mitra: The print Media and Minority Images. 91
    7. Siddharth Varadarajan: Minority Images in the Indian Print Media. 100
PART II: TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES
    8. Muslims and the World Forum 117
    9. Sabya Sachi: Of Fish and Beef, the New Recipe of the Muslim Identity: A Journey through the Cultural Prism of West Bengal. 125
    10. Charles J. Borges: Issues of Geon Muslims as see in the Geon Press. 140
    11. Dagmar Markova: The Ayodhya Controversy in the Czech Press of the 1990s. 158
    12. Estelle Dryland: Indian Muslims and Free Press. 167
    13. Susan B. Maitra: Islam and the West: Ominous Misunderstandings. 202
PART III: MUSLIMS JOURNALISM: A PHENOMENAL DICHOTOMY
    14. Robin Jeffrey: Urdu Newspapers in India: Waiting for Citizen Kane? 221
    15. Ather Farouqui: Urdu Press in India. 237
    16. Wahiduddin Khan: Muslims and the Press. 253
    17. Arshad Amanullah: Is Urdu Journalism in India a Lost Battle? 262
PART IV: POPULAR IMAGES AND THE STORY OF STEREOTYPES
    18. Moinuddin Jinabade: Bollywood Films with Special Reference to Urdu Politics and Muslims. 295
    19. John W. Hood: Indian Muslims and Indian Films: Some Observations of Contemporary Indian Art Cinema. 301
Appendix I: Vinod Mehta: Medium is the Image. 327
Appendix II: Ather Farouqui: Who's the Real Muslim? 330
Notes on Contributors. 336
Index. 338

Autor
ATHER FAROUQUI, Freelance writer based in New Delhi. He has completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (India); Vedams Books; Eastern Book Corp.; Exotic India; WorldCat.