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Migration, Identity, and Belonging in British Black and South Asian Women's Writing
Cardiff University, UK
Correspondence: WeedonCM@cardiff.ac.uk
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Introduction |
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She opened her eyes.
In front of her was a huge white circle, bounded by four-foot-high boards. Glinting, dazzling, enchanting ice. She looked at the ice and slowly it revealed itself. The criss-cross patterns of a thousand surface scars, the colours that shifted and changed in the lights, the unchanging nature of what lay beneath. A woman swooped by on one leg. No sequins, no short skirt. She wore jeans. She raced on two legs.
"Here are your boots Amma."
Nazeen turned round. To get on the ice physically—it hardly seemed to matter. In her mind she was already there.
She said, "But you can't skate in a sari."
Razia was already lacing her boots. "This is England." She said. "You can do whatever you like." (Monica Ali Brick Lane 492)
Brick Lane (2003), Monica Ali's novel about migration and settlement which she situates in the Bangladeshi community of East
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Novels of Migration and Settlement |
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Identity and Belonging in the Second Generation |
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Conclusion |
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