In Brick Lane entrepreneurial individualism replaces community as the route to autonomy

Evidence

I propose, then, to read The Black Album and Brick Lane as marking this movement away from community-oriented, socially liberal multiculturalism and toward a culture of economic individualism advocated by politicians and the media since the 1980s. … It is embedded in such a way as to appear natural and almost unconscious: just one of the means by which the protagonist escapes the stifling confines of Bangladeshi traditions. Yet in the end economic independence and the entrepreneurial spirit come to be celebrated as the royal road to female immigrant autonomy. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 148

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist follow the same arc into entrepreneurial individualism, or does he reject the royal road?
• XREF: connects to: Control society replaces discipline with entrepreneurial self-direction — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 51