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Cosmopolitanism Barriers in Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate and Other Filters (2018)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This study explores how religious, racial and gender racism represents an obstacle to any citizen to become a cosmopolitan in multicultural societies. Anti-racism fiction in Anglophone literature is the area of this study by exploring Samira Ahmed's narrative Love, Hate and Other Filters. Ahmed portrays in her debut novel how the brown Indian-American, female protagonist faces different types of discrimination in an American society. Described as brown in a white society, she suffers from color discrimination. In addition, as a female, she suffers from the patriarchal authority that restricts her freedom. Moreover, she faces islamophobia as an Indian Muslim living in America. To clarify this, the research has been conducted in a qualitative method using descriptive methodology, mainly depending on textual analysis through a close reading of the selected text. This paper explores the experience of being a Muslim female minority as narrated in post-9/11 fiction by women. It tries to manifest how Ahmed narrates Muslim women immigrants' trauma of Islamophobia, colorism and sexism in Western societies. These issues will be examined based on the selected fiction by an Indian-American, Muslim, migrant, and feminist novelist who addresses the issue of the relationship between cosmopolitanism and different categories of racism in fiction and how these three encounters of racism act as a barrier to cosmopolitanism. Ahmed's goal is to convince the reader to regularly try to live as a cosmopolitan and communicate with others.

DOI

10.21608/jfafu.2024.256104.2005

Keywords

cosmopolitanism, racism: Islamophobia, colorism, Sexism

Authors

First Name

Alyaa

Last Name

Saad

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Affiliation

English Department, Faculty of Arts, New Valley University

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m_aliaa@art.nvu.edu.eg

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Assiut

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16

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1

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44876

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2023-12-17

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2024-01-01

Page Start

634

Page End

680

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2357-0709

Online ISSN

2735-3281

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21

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970

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مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم

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Cosmopolitanism Barriers in Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate and Other Filters (2018)

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24 Dec 2024