Rehana Ahmed - Faith, Class and Cultural Resistance: Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 16:49
Rehana Ahmed completed her PhD at Nottingham Trent University in 2006. Her research interests are in twentieth-century and contemporary British Asian literature and culture, and she has taught courses in postcolonial writing at Nottingham Trent University and Royal Holloway, University of London. In October 2007 she will take up a postdoctoral research position at the Open University, working on the collaborative AHRC-funded project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950’.
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Rehana Ahmed discusses two contemporary British Asian writers of Muslim background and considers the relationship of their work and its reception to issues of class, liberal individualism and multiculturalism. She suggests that the legitimacy of Muslim grievances about aspects of these representation has been sidelined by a hegemonic discourse which proclaims the sole legitimacy of individualist perspectives, and which is suspicious of collectivist forms of action whether religious of community-based.
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