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Abstract
Through this study, the idea of diaspora as represented in Kureishi’s works is examined with a view to showing the idea of belonging and creating one’s identity. Finding a home for diasporas is no longer related to physical countries and nations; instead, it involves an assimilation and combination of different worlds, cultures, attitudes and lifestyles. By virtue of this hodgepodge, diasporas have a provisional attachment to each component of their existence.
The works studied in this thesis: The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album, My Son The Fanatic and Something to Tell You all show the intricacy of having this double identity in contemporary Britain for British South-Asians. The way towards hybrid identity is impeded by a number of obstacles such as the provocative speeches of radical nationalists like Enoch Powell, the history of colonization, literary censorship, popular culture, religious fundamentalism as well as violence and terrorism. In the light of such issues, the works covered within this study explain the rough terrain where diasporic subjects have to go through so as to construct their hybrid identity. The Bildungsroman Buddha provides us with the clearest picture of the idea of hybridity and its relation to the Indian diaspora in Britain. Kureishi in this Bildungsroman makes use of the smallest and most personal acts such as the frequent acts of violence which Karim faces at school and the insults he receives from Hairy Back to reflect the real life of those immigrants. The fact that the London depicted in this novel is the most optimistic and tolerant in the works covered within this study does not mean that its racism is absent. The novel reveals that prejudice develops from the smallest personal acts to the largest social and political attacks like the provocative speeches of Enoch Powell. It also shows us the different pictures of London in the minds of both the first and second-generation immigrants. While the first-generation, with the exception of Changez, is isolated and estranged in the British society refusing to assimilate and sometimes willingly returns internally to an imagined India, the second-generation is willing to make the city with its diversity their home as they do not know a home but London and, thereby, unlike their parents, do not carry memories of the left homes of the first-generation. To conclude, it can be said that Kureishi has successfully portrayed the South Asian diaspora in Britain through a multiplicity of characters representing the first and second generations of diaspora, their attitudes towards hybridity, the on-going dialogue between fundamentalism and liberalism and the quest for identity.