Female liberation in Brick Lane is yoked to post-Thatcherite enterprise ideology
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
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Provides the critical vocabulary to test whether Home Boy’s and Reluctant Fundamentalist’s endings similarly resolve into market individualism.