Brick Lane’s finale trades recognition-based collectivism for post-Thatcherite enterprise individualism

Evidence

Not only are men redundant in this scenario—both Nazneen and Razia are free of their husbands by the end—but the kind of recognition-based collectivism that has previously shaped Bangladeshi claims is cast aside in favor of integration with an ideology where the nation as a whole reemerges from the long sleep of economic protectionism to the post-Thatcherite dawn of enterprise and choice. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 198

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘post-Thatcherite dawn’ frame connects to broader readings of 9/11-era British fiction’s political capitulation the reader is gathering. — connects to: New Labour’s 1997 election completed Thatcherite neoliberalism’s ideological victory. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2103