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Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me

It is undeniable that in the era of globalisation, the young adults’ world is becoming ever fluid and expandable. For the young adult of minority descent, the challenges are made more complex given the contestation with the majority culture of the land. This paper investigates the contestation of ma...

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Main Authors: Raihanah, M.M., Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim,, Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
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Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
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spelling my-ukm.journal.65842016-12-14T06:41:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6584/ Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me Raihanah, M.M. Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, It is undeniable that in the era of globalisation, the young adults’ world is becoming ever fluid and expandable. For the young adult of minority descent, the challenges are made more complex given the contestation with the majority culture of the land. This paper investigates the contestation of marginalization by a Muslim young adult in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Australia as portrayed in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s second novel entitled Ten Things I Hate About Me. The paper discusses two fundamental identity spaces within the discourse of multiculturalism – private and public, and examines how the social, cultural and religious spaces inhabited by the young adult minority protagonist influence her in the formation of her identity as a member of a minority community in a predominantly white majority society. Pitted as the ‘minority within’ for the marginalization that the protagonist feels within her immediate family circle, the experience of the young adult minority, as this paper suggests, is ever complex. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6584/1/2726-9495-1-PB.pdf Raihanah, M.M. and Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim, and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, (2013) Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 19 (3). pp. 61-70. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/archive
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description It is undeniable that in the era of globalisation, the young adults’ world is becoming ever fluid and expandable. For the young adult of minority descent, the challenges are made more complex given the contestation with the majority culture of the land. This paper investigates the contestation of marginalization by a Muslim young adult in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Australia as portrayed in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s second novel entitled Ten Things I Hate About Me. The paper discusses two fundamental identity spaces within the discourse of multiculturalism – private and public, and examines how the social, cultural and religious spaces inhabited by the young adult minority protagonist influence her in the formation of her identity as a member of a minority community in a predominantly white majority society. Pitted as the ‘minority within’ for the marginalization that the protagonist feels within her immediate family circle, the experience of the young adult minority, as this paper suggests, is ever complex.
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author Raihanah, M.M.
Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim,
Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
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Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim,
Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
author_facet Raihanah, M.M.
Norzalimah Mohd. Kassim,
Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
author_sort Raihanah, M.M.
title Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
title_short Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
title_full Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
title_fullStr Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
title_full_unstemmed Minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim Australian in ten things i hate about me
title_sort minority within: 2nd generation young adult muslim australian in ten things i hate about me
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2013
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6584/1/2726-9495-1-PB.pdf
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