چکیده:
The processes of cultural transformation in Britain in the second half of the 20th century, the fall of the Empire, immigration from former colonies and the expansion of the multiculturalism, have influenced new ways of looking at the conceptions of identity of diasporic subjects within Britain. Examining these experiences, diasporic novelists write about the second generation immigrants in contemporary Britain who accentuate hybrid existence and complex identities. Hanif Kureishi in The Buddha of Suburbia delineates the formation, the existence, the refashioning of the conceptions of cultural identities of predominantly the second generation immigrants, British born migrants of his own generation and the challenges the perceptions of such identities as essentialist and fixed concepts. The novel depicts a protagonist whose cultural identity is fragmented and far from homogeneous. London with its heterogeneous character is symbolized as a place of social encounter and cultural intermixture, a decentered place that stimulates the exploration of transnational models of identity. Kureishi’s writing can be seen as an example of the fact that many conceptual binaries, such as centre and periphery, self and other, inside and outside, have been challenged and have given way to more mutable concepts of hybridity, transculturation, border lives and ‘in-between’ space.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Fragmented, Hybrid, and Diasporic Identities in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia Nasser Dasht Peyma, PhD a Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Sanam Aliashrafy b Department ofEnglish, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran February 2013 Abstract The processes of cultural transformation in Britain in the second half of the 20th century, the fall of the Empire, immigration from former colonies and the expansion of the multiculturalism, have influenced new ways of looking at the conceptions of identity of diasporic subjects within Britain.
Suburbia delineates the formation, the existence, the refashioning of the conceptions of cultural identities of predominantly the second generation immigrants, British born migrants of his own generation and the challenges a E-mail: dashtpayma_nasser@yahoo.
Kureishi places his characters predominantly in the metropolis of London which, can be seen as a transnational and heterogeneous 'contact zone' which stimulates the creation of new possibilities and the perception of cultural identities as hybrid, multiple and relational concepts that are liable to transformation and change.
Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia addresses the realities of contemporary diasporic communities in London which, as a transnational space, helps to construct unstable, fluid and incomplete cultural identities.
The 'new way of being British' and the intermediate position of a young person growing up in London, are themes developed in Kureishi' s novels The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1990) .
These concepts suggest that notions such as 'belonging', 'home' and 'nation' can be perceived in terms of ambivalence and fluidity and reveal a new way of thinking about cultural identities of the postcolonial subjects within contemporary Britain.