The Allegory of the Iron Fist
Transnational Ecofeminism in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8865626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorna Fitzsimmons (Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 904-921 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2018.1519218 |
| OpenAlex | W2902660262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article argues that Monica Ali makes extensive use of ecologically themed parallelism in her novel Brick Lane (2003). Ali uses this parallel structure to engage ecological, health, and social problems in East Pakistan, Bangladesh, and London. The parallelism serves to construct a larger ecological framework within which the migrant experience in London is brought into relief critically, complicating the assumption that Brick Lane focuses on the heroine’s “private world”. The article suggests that the novel is an allegory of development, within which images of metallic-projectile force against the female body are metonymic of the text’s ecofeminist practice
Allegory · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biology · Brick · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Fist · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism
East Asian Ecocriticisms
Metaphors We Live By
Modernity at large
Saving Strangers
Seven Doors to Islam
South Asian tales
Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Post-Colonial Allegory and the Transformation of History
Shapes and Shadows
Strategies for a Cross-Cultural Ecofeminist Literary Criticism
The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism
International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities
Brick Lane
To know what's what
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |