도시 유목민과 새로운 도시 공동체의 탄생: 라빈더 란다와의 『고약한 할머니』
Urban Nomads and a New Urban Community in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman
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Despite the growing critical attention to ‘Black’ British Literature, British Asian female authors have largely been eclipsed by writers with a Caribbean or African background. This essay means to redress this critical imbalance by examining the city life of British Asian women in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman, “arguably the first explicitly Asian British novel” (Nasta 182, original emphasis). Kuli and Rani, British Asian women in A Wicked Old Woman, are urban nomads who find home dysfunctional, uncomfortable, and limiting. Randhawa, however, does not subscribe to nomadism as a viable way of existence because city streets are full of racial violence and gender hostility that put British Asian women in a doubly vulnerable position. Instead, A Wicked Old Woman foregrounds British Asian women’s effort to create a new urban community built upon female solidarity. The novel’s interest in an urban community counters the neo-liberal culture of the 1980s shaped by Thatcherism, which privileges individualism and competition over community and solidarity.
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Despite the growing critical attention to ‘Black’ British Literature, British Asian female authors have largely been eclipsed by writers with a Caribbean or African background. This essay means to redress this critical imbalance by examining the city life of British Asian women in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman, “arguably the first explicitly Asian British novel” (Nasta 182, original emphasis). Kuli and Rani, British Asian women in A Wicked Old Woman, are urban nomads who find home dysfunctional, uncomfortable, and limiting. Randhawa, however, does not subscribe to nomadism as a viable way of existence because city streets are full of racial violence and gender hostility that put British Asian women in a doubly vulnerable position. Instead, A Wicked Old Woman foregrounds British Asian women’s effort to create a new urban community built upon female solidarity. The novel’s interest in an urban community counters the neo-liberal culture of the 1980s shaped by Thatcherism, which privileges individualism and competition over community and solidarity.
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