A literary framework of diasporic literature will be used to analyze the novels of Rekha Waheed, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and Ayisha Malik where it will be shown that though they have a limited audience these stories document the lives of diasporic women who are each juggling between at least three labels of being British, being of Asian origin and being Muslim in a predominantly white, Christian, western society. This paper proposes to analyze why chick lit is worthy of academic reflection. When it comes to diasporic Muslim women's chick lit the marginalization is understandably much more severe. Love in a Headscarf is her first book.Women's literature has often been dismissed as 'chick lit' as opposed to the 'research-worthy' mainstream literature. Her award-winning blog, Spirit 21, is hugely popular. She is much in demand as a commentator on radio and television and has appeared on programmes including Newsnight and The Heaven and Earth Show.
Shelina Janmohamed is a columnist for the Muslim News and EMEL magazine and regularly contributes to the Guardian., the BBC and Channel 4. Shelina's captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers her faith and herself.Ī memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain's leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman.
Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf – she wants to fall in love. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.' One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him.
'At the age of thirteen, I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta.
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