Dead End: The Failure of Multicultural Britain in Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets (2011)

Dead End: The Failure of Multicultural Britain in Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets (2011)

Based on Ours Are the Streets (Sunjeev Sahota, 2011), this article examines how the UK’s homeless, jobless, disenfranchised second-generation Muslims struggle to align their ethnic/cultural identities with their British identity. This is one of the first British novels that address the issue of inte...

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Autor principal: Zinck, Pascal
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Publicado em: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
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description Based on Ours Are the Streets (Sunjeev Sahota, 2011), this article examines how the UK’s homeless, jobless, disenfranchised second-generation Muslims struggle to align their ethnic/cultural identities with their British identity. This is one of the first British novels that address the issue of integration in relation to radicalization. The Umma – the worldwide community of Muslims – provides some of these hyphenated Britons with a space for dissent through which they explore new modes of self-identification and commitment, through self-imposed exile and idealized trajectories in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria, the inverted mirror image of their parents’ westward journey.
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Dead End: The Failure of Multicultural Britain in Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets (2011)
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