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‘She Had Her Hijab Pulled Off’: Dressed Bodies Do Matter in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

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The new millennium has been a ‘post-period’ almost since its dawn. Often referred to as the post-9/11 era, it is now marked by other related ‘posts’—from the 3/11 Madrid (2004) and 7/7 London (2005) bombings to more recent events in England, Germany, France and elsewhere across the globe.

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Pereira-Ares, N. (2018). ‘She Had Her Hijab Pulled Off’: Dressed Bodies Do Matter in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane . In: Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61397-0_5

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