Muslim societies, and especially Muslim women, have often received fetishized attention in (neo-)Orientalist literature. The search for soul mates who are 'men enough' to embrace the almost-schizophrenic personalities of these young women become spiritual journeys of self-discovery.
They reflect the aspirations and frustrations of Asian British Muslim women who are smart, well educated, well employed, westernized and yet often deeply rooted to their religion and Asian culture. A literary framework of diasporic literature will be used to analyze the novels of Rekha Waheed, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and Ayisha Malik where it will be shown that though they have a limited audience these stories document the lives of diasporic women who are each juggling between at least three labels of being British, being of Asian origin and being Muslim in a predominantly white, Christian, western society. This paper proposes to analyze why chick lit is worthy of academic reflection. When it comes to diasporic Muslim women's chick lit the marginalization is understandably much more severe. Women's literature has often been dismissed as 'chick lit' as opposed to the 'research-worthy' mainstream literature.
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