Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
Cultural hybridity as predicament
and site for dialogue and development.
Language-English setting, 21st c reality: racist attacks.
Politics.Between English and Islamic culture
Characters: defy conventions
· Jugnu and Chanda: run away from conservative families-cling to orthodox form of Islam
· But: Jugnu's brother Shamas: gentle, liberal man. No time for orthodox form of Islam.
· Children-negotiate Brit and Islamic culture, new generation.
· Wife Kaukub: Brought up to believe in an unforgiving, narrow-minded version of Islam.
Made human: devoted man, though sends British-born-and-raised child back to Pakistan
into an arranged marriage. Sex=shame, sin. Transgressions from orthodoxy-condemned.
But: greates value-love
23. Postmodernism, realism, postcolonialism and hybridity in the writings of Zadie Smith.
Cultural construction and the `beauty myth'.
Postmodernism
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