- By fighting hard against stereotypes, the hope is you avoid homologising the subject.
- And ascribing it to an entire group of people.
- The vast majority of whom may be horrified of it.
To put in booklet:
Murdered by my father (BBC Drama, 2016) offers nuanced representations of Asian Identity in that the writer Patel deals with the crucial cultural code of honour as a typical characteristic of Asian communities yet at the same time avoids stereotyping the the father as an Insensitive boor who cares only for his own reputation when his daughter Salma attempts to wriggle out of the marriage that has been arranged for her against her will.
For Patel, "By fighting hard against stereotype, the hope is that you avoid homogenising a crime and ascribing it to an entire group of people, the vast majority of whom would be horrified by it." Salma herself struggles to reconcile conflicting desires: aware that her every move is scrutinised, she has internalised what Foucault calls 'mechanisms of power' by self-policing when she is at home and conscious of prying eyes, but her identity is more than that of the conformist Muslim daughter as she also reveals her liberated 'Western' love of self-expression and uninhibited sexual responsiveness when she escapes to see her former love.
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