Cold War Baroque
Cold War Baroque
Saints and Icons
This chapter presents a reading of Mohammed Hanif’s novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, under the rubric Cold War Baroque. Cold War Baroque is a profoundly poetic and occasionally ironic set of aesthetic imaginings of icons and iconographies poised against the cultivation of iconoclastic and (sometimes iconically) antiaesthetic branches of Islam by the U.S. and Saudi governments and third world nationalist and praetorian regimes.
Keywords: Islam, imperial theology, secularism, Mohammed Hanif
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