"In this damn country, which we hate and love”: The Pakistani-British Diaspora During the Thatcher Years in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
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چکیده
Set in Britain during the years of Margaret Thatcher’s government, Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) depicts complex formation Pakistani-British diasporic identities a time rising migration levels anti-immigrant sentiment. Thatcher her government famously celebrated Britain’s colonial past its legacies an attempt to produce fixed definitions what being British meant as cultural national identity marker. As such distinctions Britishness non-Britishness determined who was believed belong not, exercised Jacques Derrida calls ‘conditional hospitality’ (2000): creating environment which accepts those it considers ‘British’ enough rejects do not fulfil dominant notion Britishness. Due this political climate, Pakistani characters’ relationships with ‘Britishness’ are represented fraught, ambivalent, some cases, characters reject Thatcherite ideas all together. In film, experiences — Nasser, Hussain, Omar demonstrate that obtain agency Britain, subjects had no choice but work within system oppressed them. This paper examines how three individually resist imperial discourse explores ways shows impact speeches on diaspora premiership.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Question
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2632-5454', '2632-5446']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52715/bnwf5875