![]() ![]() The account she gives of the immigrants’ life is moving and exposes the paradox of the yearning for the home country. She illustrates with her different characters how the diasporic prism distorts reality. This paper aims at showing how Monica Ali challenges the notion of belonging. ![]() Through Nazneen’s eyes, the reader witnesses the shaping of a multicultural community in a context of social and racial unrest. Images of the Golden Bengal collide with the bricks of Bangla Town. She does not speak English and knows nothing of the city. In her debut novel, Brick Lane (2003), Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi girl is married off to Chanu, a man nearly twice her age who tries to be a ‘Big Man’ in London. Bhabha defined as an interstitial space in The Location of Culture. Born in Dhaka and educated in England, Monica Ali writes from what Homi K. ![]()
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