the buddha of suburbia by hanif kureishi

This thesis carries out a comparative analysis of three modernist bildungsromans written by André Gide, James Joyce, and Hermann Hesse in the light of Nietzschean philosophy. Nietzsche’s influence on modernist bildungsroman: the immoralist, a portrait of the artist as a young man, and demian /īaşpınar, Harika Alpakın Martınez Caro, Dürrin Department of English Literature (2014) The present study aims to lay bare how Kureishi moves the previously fixed categories into a slippery ground in his fiction and, in the process, how he challenges the fundamental givens of identity politics against the background of Homi Bhabha’s key concepts: hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, agency, liminality and the third space. Sezer, Şermin Birlik, Nurten Department of English Literature (2010)Īgainst the background of The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, this study explores the ways Hanif Kureishi problematizes the notion of identity. The question of identity in Hanif Kureishi’s the buddha of suburbia and the black album Miéville uses the concepts of hybridity and heterotopias as essential. It analyzes his utilization of the concepts of socio-cultural and biological hybridity and also examines the significance, position and relevance of Foucaultian heterotopias in Miéville’s worldbuilding. This thesis analyzes China Miéville’s imaginary world of Bas-Lag, constructed in his novel series consisting of Perdido Street Station, The Scar and The Iron Council, with an analytic focus on the second and third novels of the series.

Department of English Literature (2022-7) Özkuzey, Özden Barışcan Sönmez, Margaret Jeanne M. HYBRIDITY AND HETEROTOPIAS IN CHINA MIÉVILLE’S WEIRD WORLD OF BAS-LAG He discusses Gogol’s Testament, his visual secretics that. In the first article, Langen argues that Gogol borrowed ideas from the Irish writer Flann O’Brien and the Russian experimentalist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. In the first part, there are two articles dedicated to Gogol. They focus on anticipatory plagiarism in Russian literature by using an ‘advance retrospective’ approach. This collaborative work is an anthology of writings by Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and a retrospective analysis of their works.

Reading Backwards An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature (Book Review)

The buddha of suburbia by hanif kureishi