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The path to hybrid identities through Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
| Resumo: | This dissertation investigates questions of identity within postcolonial studies as depicted in two literary writings, one by Leila Aboulela, Minaret (2005) and another by Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003). I analyse both works by showing how the protagonists Najwa and Nazneen, respectively, goes through an identity crisis in the beginning and eventually construct a kind of ‘becoming’ identity position. I emphasise how each character go through transformations, in which their different experiences between time and space continuously shape their identities rather than gaining a fixed or essentialist notion of identity. I particularly show how Najwa and Nazneen, respectively, faced three main stages until reaching in the end a hybrid identity. To this purpose, I frame this analysis within several identity and postcolonial theories, such as Stuart Hall’s, Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theory of hybridity, and Edward Said’s Orientalism theory, among others. |
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| Autores principais: | khatib, Amani El |
| Assunto: | Belonging Hybrid identity Identity crisis Muslim women Transformation Crise de identidade Identidade híbrida Mulheres muçulmanas Pertença Transformação |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | This dissertation investigates questions of identity within postcolonial studies as depicted in two literary writings, one by Leila Aboulela, Minaret (2005) and another by Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003). I analyse both works by showing how the protagonists Najwa and Nazneen, respectively, goes through an identity crisis in the beginning and eventually construct a kind of ‘becoming’ identity position. I emphasise how each character go through transformations, in which their different experiences between time and space continuously shape their identities rather than gaining a fixed or essentialist notion of identity. I particularly show how Najwa and Nazneen, respectively, faced three main stages until reaching in the end a hybrid identity. To this purpose, I frame this analysis within several identity and postcolonial theories, such as Stuart Hall’s, Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theory of hybridity, and Edward Said’s Orientalism theory, among others. |
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