Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature -- Part I: The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions -- 2 "To the Shore of Tripoli": Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain -- 3 Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church -- 4 The "Aesthetics" of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English -- Part II: Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization -- 5 Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album -- 6 From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters -- 7 Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political Critic -- Part III: Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts -- 8 Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism -- 9 Literature as the "Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text" or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi -- 10 Never Better than Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.