De la désaffiliation dans My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad, 1997)
In hindsight, My Son the Fanatic turned out to be a prophetic tale going against many mainstream comedies promoting integration and celebrating the joys of multiculturalism. Watching a family disintegrate over the question of identity, this wincing tragicomedy warned about the dangers of isolationis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2024-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/18020 |
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| Summary: | In hindsight, My Son the Fanatic turned out to be a prophetic tale going against many mainstream comedies promoting integration and celebrating the joys of multiculturalism. Watching a family disintegrate over the question of identity, this wincing tragicomedy warned about the dangers of isolationist and separatist tendencies among some British youths as early as 1997. Through the simmering then overt conflict between a Pakistani father and his British-born son, the film raises fundamental questions about the nature of identity, the complexity of allegiances in a postcolonial context and the transmission of a legacy in the citizenship building process. Beyond a mere binary opposition, it uses numerous supporting characters to subtly define their negotiated relation to Britishness and goes into the heart of darkness to eventually promote humane, though flawed, individuals. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |