Criticism of Identity Fetishism in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Brahim El Fida
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This paper seeks to unravel how Hanif Kureishi’s novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), reflects issues related to immigration after the upheavals of the 1960s and the wave of independence in what were once the colonized lands and territories of the British Empire. The article shows how the novel succeeds in raising the thorny questions of identity and imagined native homelands as they are well-known today. The latter questions also result in scenes of identity fetishism and strict-mindedness that the novel openly challenges. Through the use of satire, Kureishi exposes the dangers of exclusive identity and strict clinging to one’s homeland and heritage in a globalized, metropolitan space of London. The novel is also critical of the legacies of Orientalism, an ideology and a prism that views ‘Others’ as backward, uncivilsed and threat to a deemed pure identity. The article also stresses that questions of immigration and immigrants will remain an enduring concern for coming decades in metropolitan spaces and contexts. This attests to the fact that novels are not simply works of pure imagination without any reflection of actual problems and phenomena.
库雷希《郊区的佛》对身份拜物教的批判
本文试图揭示哈尼夫·库雷希的小说《郊区的佛陀》(1990)如何反映了20世纪60年代动荡之后的移民问题,以及曾经是大英帝国殖民地和领土的独立浪潮。这篇文章展示了这部小说是如何成功地提出了身份认同和想象中的故乡这些棘手的问题,因为它们在今天是众所周知的。后一个问题也导致了小说公开挑战的身份崇拜和思想严谨的场景。通过对讽刺的运用,Kureishi揭示了在全球化的伦敦大都会空间中,排他性身份和严格坚持自己的家园和遗产的危险。这部小说也批判了东方主义的遗产,东方主义是一种意识形态和棱镜,将“他人”视为落后的、不文明的、对被认为是纯粹身份的威胁。文章还强调,在未来几十年,移民和移民问题仍将是大都市空间和环境中持久关注的问题。这就证明了小说并不是对现实问题和现象没有任何反映的单纯的想象作品。
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