Essay Question: Discuss the representation of masculinity in Monica Alis Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiris The Interpreter of Maladies or Tahmima Anams A Golden Age
The writer should use Brick Lane as one of the texts, however they can choose between The interpreter of Maladies and A Golden Age to compare it with. The writer should focus on using close reading and analysis in this essay as the instructor of this course has made it clear that they would like to see a lot of examples from the primary texts. (Pls include quotations from the text instead of simply referring to them)
Second reading recommendations:
– Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity – Chandra Talpade Mohanty
– Third World women and the politics of feminism – Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres chapter
– Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form: Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane – Alistair Cormack
– A Companion to Postcolonial Studies – Henry schwarz, Sangeeta Ray
– Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation – Ruvani Ranasinha
– Shapes and Shadows: (Un)veiling the Immigrant in Monica Alis Brick Lane – Jane Hiddleston
– Honour Tahmima Anam
