Chambers, Claire Gail orcid.org/0000-0001-8996-4129 (2020) 'Burminggaon? Nottinggaon? Biradforrd?':British Asian Noir Depictions of Bradford. Forum for Modern Language Studies. 259–279. ISSN 1471-6860
Abstract
In this article, I examine noir representations of ‘Biradforrd’, that important West Yorkshire city which, as one British-Punjabi character’s mispronunciation suggests, has been transformed by South Asian Muslim migration. I examine a trilogy: M. Y. Alam’s Bradford noir novels Annie Potts is Dead, Kilo and Red Laal (1998−2012), and a tetralogy: A. A. Dhand’s Streets of Darkness, Girl Zero, City of Sinners and One Way Out (2016−2019). These novels explore the biradari or kinship system evoked by Atia Hosain’s character in her neologism ‘Biradforrd’. They also focus, among other matters, on Bradford’s predominantly Mirpuri community from the Azad Kashmir region of northeast Pakistan. I argue that despite their different religious backgrounds, Alam and Dhand are both from the ‘myth of return’ class and portray from the inside Bradfordians’ ghettoized deprivation, drugs problem and vulnerability to racist and Islamophobic abuse.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020, The Author(s). This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Bradford,noir,British Asian,crime fiction |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2020 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa017 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/fmls/cqaa017 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159215 |
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