Gender, identity and tradition in meera syal, Nisha minhas and B.K. Mahal: Lights and Shadows in unwritten rules of conduct

2009

The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the female characters, members of the second generation, created by Meera Syal, Nisha Minhas and B. K. Mahal from the point of view of discourse and gender identity in a context of multiculturalism and culture clash like the British. I propose a reading of their books as a metaphor of conduct books following Armstrong and Tennenhouse (1987), and which point to the construction of new models of femininity. The reasons for having chosen these authors and works are of a different kind. All of them are female writers born in England but whose parents came from the Indian Subcontinent. As such not only are they aware of contemporary British society…