Transplanted gender norms and their limits in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2018
• Subjects: BP1075 Sex role; HQ12 Sexual life; HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home; PI Oriental languages and literatures; PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/64766/1/64766_Transplanted%20Gender%20Norms.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64766/7/64766_Transplanted%20gender%20norms%20and%20their%20limits_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64766/12/64766_Transplanted%20gender%20norms%20and%20their%20limits%20in%20Monica%20Ali%27s%20Brick%20Lane_WOS%20%281%29.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64766/; http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/49

In Brick Lane (2003), Monica Ali describes both the spatial and metaphysical geography of Bangladeshi immigrants living in the diaspora in Britain. Face-to-face with immigrant anxieties as well as material constraints in the host society, diasporic patriarchy seeks to transplant gender norms of its...