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From: Far Eastern Economic Review[(essay date 16 October 2003) In the following essay, Singh comments on Ali's background and the composition of Brick Lane.] Some readers might conclude that Brick Lane, the only novel by an Asian-born author to be...
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From:Arab Studies QuarterlyPeer-ReviewedAbstract: The Reluctant Fundamentalist proves vitally engaged in the concerns of the mind and its passages reveal a struggle with difficulties of a sort that make anxiety seem an innocuous euphemism or outdated scholarly...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 27 April 2009) In the following review, Ahmed maintains that an interesting twist late in the novel cannot save In the Kitchen from mediocrity.] The figure at the centre of Monica Ali's third novel [In...
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From:New Formations (Issue 73) Peer-ReviewedWhen someone becomes or does not become a reader--and how we make a claim to or refuse these kinds of identity--clearly matters within globalised cultures, where the challenges of literary representation quickly become...
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From: Ariel[(essay date January 2009) In the following essay, Dawson underscores the exploitation of migrants and refugees in Brick Lane and Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things while highlighting the two works' different...
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSmall Island de Andrea Levy, Brick Lane de Monica Ali y White Teeth de Zadie Smith son reconocidas novelas de escritoras británicas contemporáneas que, aunque nacidas en Inglaterra, tienen vínculos familiares con grupos...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Gunning evaluates Kunzru’s work alongside that of Caryl Phillips, deeming both to be “politically committed writers from ethnic minorities in Britain.”] I’ve had conversations...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1964 sociologist Ruth Glass used "gentrification" to describe what occurred when middle-class home buyers, landlords, and professional developers moved into parts of London that had dilapidated housing stock and...
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From: Cultural Critique[(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Marx compares the treatment of female labor on a global scale in Brick Lane with William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Marx also addresses the concept of agency in Ali's...
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From: Atlantis
Representing Third Spaces, Fluid Identities, and Contested Spaces in Contemporary British Literature
[(essay date December 2009) In the following essay, Fernández suggests that the depiction of heterogeneous British identity in Brick Lane, Andrea Levy's Small Island, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth is marked by a... -
From: Islamic Postcolonialism: Islam and Muslim Identities in Four Contemporary British Novels[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Majed examines how Minaret challenges the perpetuation of Islamic stereotypes in colonialist discourse, asserting that the novel seeks to overcome the conflict between Islam and...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe are currently living through the greatest age of mass displacement in the world's history. According to the United Nations Population Division, at present there are almost two hundred million people--equivalent to...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date winter 2006) In the following essay, Cormack notes the conservative quality of realism in Brick Lane, and highlights the work's liberational aspirations.] Monica Ali's 2003 novel of Bangladeshi immigrants...
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From: Islam and the West: A Love Story?[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Arifeen discusses al-Shaykh’s Only in London alongside two other contemporary literary works by Muslim women. Noting the ways in which such authors challenge patriarchal social...