I am doing an essay on the book Brick Lane- Looking for negative stereotypes of ethnic minorities?

Question

We were given 11 books to choose from, the teacher has terrible taste all the books were dreadfully boring and this pile of rubbish called 'Brick Lane and another pile of rubbish called 'Kilo' were the only ones you could make a good essy title of also they were both portraying Muslims/Asians etc.

I chose the question 'How do Brick Lane and Kilo reinforce negative stereotypes of Muslims and people from the Indian sub-continent in general?

Which other books are similar?

Are there any books out there that already look at how ethnic minorities are portrayed in literature?

I don't actually want to do this question but I have handed in the essay title and now have no choice. I can't be bothered reading any more from these silly writers.

Is it better to compare how both books reinforce negative stereotypes of Asians or study another book called 'Amongst Women by John McGahern and compare how how Irish people are portrayed negatively as well as Asians in Brick Lane?

Answer 1

NewmansOwn:

Sorry you didn't like "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali. I really liked it because the woman in the novel broke out of the stereotype of the typical Muslim woman.

The kids were also breaking out of the mold, too.

A couple of websites for you:

http://www.netribution.co.uk/2/content/view/788/182/

http://www.hwo.cidsnet.de/e/reviews.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Ali

Good luck

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