Racism and Resistance: The Struggles of Muslim Youths in Randa Abdel Fattah’s Novels
Keywords:
Ethnic, Multicultural, Racism, Islamophobia, HybridizedAbstract
This study highlights the issues of racism faced by Muslim youths in young adult fictions. The writer chosen is the Palestinian-Australian Randa Abdel Fattah, who writes Does My Head Look Big in This?, Ten Things that I Hate about Me, and The Lines We Cross. These three fictions are used in order to portray the discriminations that the Muslim youths have to endure in their community. Muslims in general face many difficulties with the rise of Islamophobia especially after the 9/11 tragedy in 2001. The Muslim youths in the novels are also part of the victims of racism as a result of their ‘ethnic’ background and being a Muslim. However, these youths have their own ways of challenging racism and be proud of their own unique identity as a hybridized young adult in contemporary multicultural Australia.
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