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Ethnicity, Individuality and Peer Pressure in Meera Syal's Anita and Me

Year: 2010

Type of publication: článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Theories in Practice: proceedings of the 1st International Conference on English and American Studies

Publisher name: Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně

Place: Zlín

Page from-to: 171-176

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Etnicita, individualita a vliv vrstevníků v románu Anita and Me Meery Syal	Článek s využitím teorie multikulturalismu a postmoderního dětství analyzoval zobrazení dětství a dospívání indicko-britské dívky v Británii 60. let.	etnicita;osobnostní rozvoj;postmoderní společnost;Meera Syal;Anita and Me
eng	Ethnicity, Individuality and Peer Pressure in Meera Syal's Anita and Me	The article focused on the literary depiction of bi-cultural childhood consciously placed into postmodern situation. Using theories of post-modernity and multiculturalism, I will analyze how Meera Syal?s critically highly acclaimed novel Anita and Me (1996) addresses the complex issues of child?s emerging individuality, the struggle with bi-cultural situation, the protagonis?s coping with ethnic versus mainstream identity, the influence of peer pressure on her maturation and how the realization of otherness and experience with racism function as rites of passage in the protagonist?s transition from childhood to adolescence.	erhnicity;indivduality;Meera Syal;Anita and Me

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