Fetishized hijab and resilient Muslim women: Representations of the veil in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and in Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era of xenophobia, vulnerability and vicissitudes, the Muslim diaspora in the West is at the center of contestations about identities and racked with somewhat unacknowledged exilic anxieties. However, as they experience “double colonization” by patriarchy and imperialism in...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/34641/1/article_mahmud_Fetishized_hijab_and_resilient_Muslim_women_Representations_of_the_veil_in_Leila_Aboulela%E2%80%99s.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/34641/2/2014_Participation_Letter_Hasan.pdf |