SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN CROSS-CULTURAL SPACE: WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE IN MONICA ALI’S BRICK LANE
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https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2018.171871Keywords:
Monica Ali, Brick Lane, self-identification, multicultural, cross-cultural space, postcolonial novel, female.Abstract
Abstract. The paper deals with self-identification as one of the most topical problems in view of British
postcolonial literature. Women’s multicultural prose, being a bright combination of gender and ethnic discourses, gives an opportunity to form even more interesting ground for discussion. In this regard Brick Lane (2003), the debut novel of half-English half-Bangladeshi Monica Ali is particularly appropriate. Nazneen, a young woman, is in the center of the novel’s narrative. At the age of 18 she and her husband Chanu move from Guripur, a Sylhetian village, to Tower Hamlets, a borough inhabited by the biggest East Pakistani diaspora in London. The novel covers 17 years, from 1985 to 2002. During the period described the main heroine does not only mature, take death of the son, become a mother of
2 daughters, but also finds her city and female self. The story presents a peculiar example of cross-cultural and gender issues’ interaction which is reflected through the depiction of the female protagonist in search of identity.
Keywords: Monica Ali, Brick Lane, self-identification, multicultural, cross-cultural space, postcolonial novel,
female.
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