PERFORMATIVE IDENTITIES FIRST GENERATION IMMIGRANTS HAROON AND ANWAR IN HANIF KUREISHI S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Şermin SEZER TORAMAN Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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Bildiri Dili | İngilizce |
| Bildiri Alt Türü | Tam Metin Olarak Yayınlanan Tebliğ (Uluslararası Kongre/Sempozyum) | ||
| Bildiri Niteliği | Alanında Hakemli Uluslararası Kongre/Sempozyum | ||
| Kongre Adı | CRHA Graduate Conference: From Monadism to Nomadism: A Hybrid Approach to Cultural Productions | ||
| Kongre Tarihi | 12-04-2013 / 13-11-2014 | ||
| Basıldığı Ülke | Amerika Birleşik Devletleri | Basıldığı Şehir | Calıfornıa |
| Bildiri Linki | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/22p806hz | ||
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| The Buddha of Suburbia is composed of subplots, which proceed through Karim Amir’s quest from childhood to adulthood. Revolving around a protagonist with an Indian father and a suburbanite English mother, the novel deals with the issues of race, ethnicity and social class in postcolonial discourse by mocking any fixed notion like nationhood and identity. In this particular social context, any established category is denied so it is impossible to see any stable identity. The novel takes place during the years Thatcher, a conservative Member of Parliament who insists on keeping the British race pure, is active and ends up being elected the Prime Minister; but Kureishi demonstrates how Thatcher’s attempts to exclude the immigrants from the concept of Britishness is in vain. This paper will focus on the experiences of first generation immigrants Haroon and Anwar, who in addition to the adjustment problems, face lots of difficulties due to racial discrimination. Since their predicament is reinforced by discriminatory attitudes, they can neither feel attached to their roots nor become integrated into the British society. Thus, to survive, they create their own spaces, which leave them in liminality in Homi Bhabha’s terms. Living in liminal spaces does not indicate that the settlers are outcasts but they mould their own hybrid identities. Liminality contributes to the “in-between” nature of colonial discourse and can be called an “interstitial passage between fixed identifications” and this passage gives way to the emergence of hybridity, which celebrates difference without an imposed hierarchy (Ashcroft et al. 2000: 131). Liminality is crucial in explaining the role of … |
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