![]() When dad and one of his ‘disciples’ become romantically involved, Karim is introduced into the whirlwind of London punk social life and then thoroughly swept along in the tide, ultimately achieving a measure of true personal success as all around him flounder in overindulgent self-indulgence. His father’s escape from this disaster is to become the ‘Buddha of Suburbia’, mouthing trite Indian spiritual sayings for desperate middle aged suburban housewives and the like. a close reading of Hanif Kureishis The Buddha of Suburbia, I focus on how the development of identity is portrayed in the novel and argue that this. “His English mother and Indian father’s marriage is rapidly disintegrating. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishis first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the. ![]() Summary/Abstract: "The novel is set in London in the 1970s and centres around Karim Amir, a seventeen year-old Indo-British teenager. Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara ![]() MULTICULTURALISM, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Author(s): Andrea Kriston MULTICULTURALISM, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA ![]()
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