Muslim Women’s Construction of Cultural Identity in The Third Space: Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed (2009)

Abstract

The third space has become a platform for Muslim women to construct their cultural identity and determine their uniqueness in an ambivalent world. Cultural identity has gained a particular interest in social studies. Several questions are crucial to the discussion of postcolonial construction of identity. This study aims to explore how also studies the possibilities of the formulation of the hybrid identity between Muslim societies and the Western cultures and the sense of belonging. In addition, it attempts to investigate the third space and the construction of identity in Love in a Headscarf as a postcolonial text. In three chapters, this study will explore Shelina‘s choice to maintain her Islamic identity, assimilate to the host culture or build a hybrid identity as a British Muslim woman