Essays about: "Brick Lane"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Brick Lane.

  1. 1. No (Wo)man's Land - The Making of a Room of One's Own in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Wallentin Richardsson; [2019]
    Keywords : The Self and Society Emancipation Gender Hybridity Androgyny Woolf Bhabha; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay, I uncover and examine a number of different strategies applied toward self-realization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). I filter Ali’s modern day bildungsroman through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s understanding of self-realization as a gendered process as well as through Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. Shattered Dreams : An essay analyzing Chanu's assimilation process in Brick Lane

    University essay from Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Caroline Harmon; [2014]
    Keywords : Post colonial theory; double consciousness; unhomeliness; cultural hybridity; mimicry;

    Abstract : Brick Lane has stimulated a wide range of debates regarding Monica Ali's portrayal of the inhabitants of the area from which the novel has taken its title. This essay claims that assimilation is the key theme of the novel, and that the desire to achieve it is represented most strongly in the character of Chanu. READ MORE

  4. 3. Brick Lane Street Market : A study in urban historical-geographical change

    University essay from Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Sanna Ärfström; [2012]
    Keywords : Brick Lane; gentrification; urban regeneration; street market; market; urban change;

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  5. 4. A Postcolonial Study of Fact and Fiction in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

    University essay from Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

    Author : Margaret Wallace Nilsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Brick Lane; London; Post-Colonialism; fact and fiction;

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  6. 5. Monica Ali’s Brick Lane – Fiction, Yet Relevant : The Plight of Bangladeshi Women from a Fictive Perspective

    University essay from Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

    Author : Gustaf Crusensvärd; [2011]
    Keywords : Monica Ali; Brick Lane; oppression; sexism; Bangladesh;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the topics of sexism and the function of gender and oppression in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Instances in the novel are related to real world incidents in order to show how Ali, in spite of her Western upbringing and perspective, has accurately depicted several problematical cases of injustice in Muslim culture. READ MORE