Reframing the veil and liminal hybrid identities in selected contemporary immigrant Muslim women’s novels

• Main Author: Al-Karawi, Susan Taha Ahmed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Muslim women; Emigration and immigration
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/70089/1/FBMK%202014%2067%20-%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/70089/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This thesis explores the rapidly growing body of fiction in English by and about practising Muslim women living in Western societies. This exploration is made through the lives and works of three contemporary immigrant Muslim women writers: Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This? (200...