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Racial and Religious Discrimination Suffered by Mahmood Mattan in Nadifah Mohammed’s The Fortune Men

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This research examines the religious and racial discrimination faced
by the character Mahmood Mattan in Nadifa Mohammed's novel The Fortune
Men. This research aims to investigate how Mattan's struggle in facing
religious and racial discrimination in an unfair legal system as depicted in the
novel. This research uses qualitative descriptive methods to analyze the
dialogue from the novel and the theory of genetic structuralism to examine
Mattan's struggle against discriminations, where reflects the social reality
when minority may experience discrimination in the legal system. This study
found that Mattan has faced religious and racial discrimination in an unfair
legal system in various ways. In racial discrimination, he faced it through
acceptance of reality and self-identity, a passive-activist response to
discrimination, Patience and steadfastness amidst framing as criminals
because of Race. While facing religious discrimination, he used religion to
gain strength and reclaimed his identity as a Muslim after being forgotten.
Furthermore, Mattan's struggle is not for himself, but his struggle represents
the oppressed Black Muslim community, as a transindividual subject, who
tries to get justice during a corrupt and biased system, even though he cannot
directly change the oppressive legal system.

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BSI-2025-ARM r

Publisher

Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2025

Collation

xii, 67 hal :Ilus :, 30 cm

Language

English

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BSI-2025-ARM r

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Subject(s)

Racial discrimination
The Fortune Men
Mahmood Mattan
religious discrimination--Genetic Structuralism

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