Racialized masculinities and postcolonial critique in contemporary British Asian male-authored texts

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ID2178463
AuthorsRuvani Ranasinha (0000-0003-2751-1399)
Year2009
Volume45
Issue3
Pages297-307
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449850903064799
OpenAlexW2069940983
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

This article begins with a discussion of Hanif Kureishi's intervention in redefining configurations of racialized masculinity in relation to queer desire and class in his path‐breaking screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (1986 Kureishi, Hanif. 1986. My Beautiful Laundrette, London: Faber. [Google Scholar]), via the inter‐racial gay romance between Omar, an ambitious mixed‐race British Asian and his white, working‐class former schoolmate Johnny. My discussion then turns to the ways in which younger writers, Gautam Malkani and Nadeem Aslam, revisit and rework these earlier models of racialized masculinity. It examines a range of identity markers in British Asian fiction since Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette, focusing on the ways in which race, class, masculinity and religion intersect, and are represented through one another in selected primary texts. The article concludes that these shifting constructions of racialized masculinities suggest that religious identity cannot be subsumed under categories of gender and ethnicity and nation

Masculinity · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · South asia · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · History

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