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Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels

The importance of multiculturalism within the parameters of feministic theory has become a new element for South Asian diaspora writers. They are keenly interested in debating the issues of cultural conflicts, differences, identity, assimilation, integration, negation, oppression, sex discriminati...

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Main Authors: Asim Karim,, Zakia Nasir,
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7743/1/6830-18850-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.77432016-12-14T06:45:03Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7743/ Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels Asim Karim, Zakia Nasir, The importance of multiculturalism within the parameters of feministic theory has become a new element for South Asian diaspora writers. They are keenly interested in debating the issues of cultural conflicts, differences, identity, assimilation, integration, negation, oppression, sex discrimination and gender inequality in their works. This paper with a focus on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers brings out the features of female oppression that lead to their fragmentation on emotional, social, cultural and physical levels. Thus the focus of this paper is to analytically perceive how some prominent writers have shown feminist concerns about these situations. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7743/1/6830-18850-1-PB.pdf Asim Karim, and Zakia Nasir, (2014) Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 125-134. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description The importance of multiculturalism within the parameters of feministic theory has become a new element for South Asian diaspora writers. They are keenly interested in debating the issues of cultural conflicts, differences, identity, assimilation, integration, negation, oppression, sex discrimination and gender inequality in their works. This paper with a focus on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers brings out the features of female oppression that lead to their fragmentation on emotional, social, cultural and physical levels. Thus the focus of this paper is to analytically perceive how some prominent writers have shown feminist concerns about these situations.
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Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels
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title_full_unstemmed Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels
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