Titlebook: Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature; Esra Mirze Santesso Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

Malfunction

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5al high streets boast not just mosques and cultural centres, but Islamic schools, halal grocers, shops selling everything from “halal toothpaste” to “Islamic toys”—even organisations offering “Islamic medical advice.” In 2011, posters appeared proclaiming the area a “Shariah Controlled Zone.” In the

locus-ceruleus

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5 ignore everything other than religion. We might mention some additional (and sometimes contradictory) tendencies within the second category: treating all Muslim women as one group with similar backgrounds and motivations; treating Islam as a phase which the successful immigrant grows out of; treati

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5Africans, and South Sea Islanders.” The Home, in Docklands (part of the Borough of Tower Hamlets, where Brick Lane is located) was a centre for London’s large (60000+ at the time) and growing population of “lascars” (Indian sailors—primarily Bengali Muslims) and other Muslim groups. The film is titl

Endometrium

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5rate on the way she must juggle various components of identity (nationality, class, gender, race and religion) in an effort to adjust to her new environment in the West. Nazneen, Najwa, Salma and Lily are all forced to leave their respective Muslim homelands due to personal and political reasons; th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5Disorientation is not a pleasant experience for the characters of these novels and it is understandable that they fantasise about ways of ending or avoiding it. At one point in ., Nazneen starts wondering whether she could magically transform herself into a Westerner by altering her clothes:

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upstart

Entropion

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85088-5c Republic of Tower Hamlets”) where Christians must assimilate to Muslim law and ritual rather than the other way around. It is “Londonistan” come to life. It is, we are breathlessly told, a place where immigrants are in complete control.

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