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“The old and honourable craft of tailoring”: empowering fabrics in Monica Ali's "Brick lane"
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ares, Noemí Pereira |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), fashion acquires a central position, both as a visual discourse and as an industry which provides the female characters with an opportunity to access the labour market. Illuminated by feminist and socio-cultural studies, this paper intends to analyse the role that fashion, as an industry, plays in Brick Lane, demonstrating how Monica Ali exposes its ambiguous nature as a means which simultaneously empowers and exploits female migrant workers. I will argue that, through the story of Nazneen in Britain and the epistolary narrative of Hasina in Dakha, Monica Ali manages to portray that ambiguity at both ends of the international labour market, envisaging, in the end, new practices which enable female empowerment without entailing exploitation. |
| Starting Page | 27 |
| Ending Page | 27 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://aedean.org/pdf_atatimecrisis/Pereira_AEDEAN35.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
