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'Does my bomb Look Big in This?' Representing Muslim girls in recent Australian cultural texts.(Television program review)

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature

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Since 9/11 there has been a spate of cultural texts for young people which attempt to move away from the sensationalised connotation and reductive stereotyping of the Muslim as the homogenised, dehumanised, violent and/or exoticised pariah/Other, and to represent Muslim characters sympathetically instead of as potential terrorists (see, for example, Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandrab's The Glory Garage (2005), and Morris Gleitzman's Boy Overboard (2002) and Girl Underground (2004)). One of the first of these was John Doyle's Marking Time, which was shown on ABC television in 2003, and which the promotion material describes as 'a Romeo and Juliet story set in a rural ...

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