Places and non-places in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Autores/as

  • Julia Goulart Sereno Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2018.35401

Palabras clave:

diaspora, memory, place, non-place, belonging

Resumen

This article aims at analyzing the role of flashbacks experienced by Nazneen, who is the protagonist of the novel Brick Lane (2003), by Monica Ali. By considering the concepts of spaces, places and non-places proposed by anthropologist Marc Augé in Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1994), which is mentioned by phi-losopher Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity (2000), the present article will demon-strate how Nazneen tries to reconstruct/rewrite her spatial and temporal displacement through her memory. However, what could be seen as an escape is, in essence, a journey in search for meaning, for belonging.

Biografía del autor/a

Julia Goulart Sereno, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Mestre em Letras – Literaturas de Língua Inglesa – pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Publicado

2018-07-03

Cómo citar

Sereno, J. G. (2018). Places and non-places in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Palimpsesto - Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Letras Da UERJ, 17(26), 685–695. https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2018.35401