The politics of hijab in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9002017
AutoresNoemí Pereira-Ares (0000-0002-3489-5178, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen48
Número2
Páginas201-220
Fecha de publicación2013-03-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021989412474852
OpenAlexW2027115968
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

In Brick Lane, Monica Ali problematizes the practice of hijab both implicitly and explicitly. To this end, the British Bangladeshi writer does not simply open the discussion within the fictional world of the novel. She also creates a series of characters whose dressed bodies silently project a broad spectrum of attitudes towards hijab, attitudes that range from the rejection to the ardent celebration of such a practice. Relying on socio-cultural studies on the subject, the present contribution intends to examine the politics of hijab as represented in Brick Lane, demonstrating how the novel fictionalizes many of the competing discourses which have surrounded the question of hijab in recent decades

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Brick · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Socioeconomic Development in Asia