![]() ![]() Muslim societies, and especially Muslim women, have often received fetishized attention in (neo-)Orientalist literature. ![]() The search for soul mates who are 'men enough' to embrace the almost-schizophrenic personalities of these young women become spiritual journeys of self-discovery. They reflect the aspirations and frustrations of Asian British Muslim women who are smart, well educated, well employed, westernized and yet often deeply rooted to their religion and Asian culture. A literary framework of diasporic literature will be used to analyze the novels of Rekha Waheed, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and Ayisha Malik where it will be shown that though they have a limited audience these stories document the lives of diasporic women who are each juggling between at least three labels of being British, being of Asian origin and being Muslim in a predominantly white, Christian, western society. This paper proposes to analyze why chick lit is worthy of academic reflection. ![]() When it comes to diasporic Muslim women's chick lit the marginalization is understandably much more severe. ![]() Women's literature has often been dismissed as 'chick lit' as opposed to the 'research-worthy' mainstream literature. ![]()
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