Reading the hijab as a Marker of Faith in Randa Abdel- Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?

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Reading the hijab as a Marker of Faith in Randa Abdel- Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s 2006 novel, Does My Head Look Big in This?, is about a teenage Australian Muslim protagonist who voluntarily chooses to wear the hijab to her elite private school in Melbourne, and the personal and social challenges that she faces after making this decision. In this paper, I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Amrah Abdul Majid
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10165/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10165/1/11928-43162-1-PB.pdf

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