![]() ![]() In such a view, you either have a startlingly innovative style and rapturous presentation of multicultural energies, or you have neither. ![]() productive cultural hybridity is commonly (and erroneously) perceived to go hand-in-glove with overtly experimental forms. ![]() The novels he looks at have much in common in terms of subject matter with Brick Lane it is thus interesting that he addresses the question of the troubled relationship of postcolonialism and realism in a subsection titled "Ethnic Identity and Literary Form." He argues: In the chapter "Multicultural Personae" in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000, Dominic Head has investigated "the hybridized cultural forms that might be produced in an evolving, and so genuinely, multicultural Britain" (156). Because it is a realist narrative with a postcolonial story, it offers an excellent opportunity to examine the relationship between the formal strategies of mimetic fiction and the historical contexts of multiculturalism and immigration. ![]() Monica Ali's 2003 novel of Bangladeshi immigrants in London, Brick Lane, has been a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]()
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