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Dissolving Cultural Boundaries: Two Novels by Bali Rai and Narinder Dhami
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, January 2009
- pp. 11-17
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0124
- Article
- Additional Information
Migration and diaspora, cultural identity, hybridity and belonging are explored in novels by many British Asian writers. In this analysis of two novels for young people by Bali Rai and Narinder Dhami, Shehrazade Emmambokus considers how these novelists of the South Asian diaspora in Britain negotiate hybrid cultural identities and offer their readers a kind of bibliotherapy in the process