The Loss of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia
The Loss of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

The Loss of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Summary/Abstract: Colonialism transformed and displaced cultural standards, traditions and beliefs, and imposed different ones that were forced upon colonized people. This is how cultural displacement began. Kureishi deals with these issues and the challenge of reshaping a national identity, recovering from its harmful experience. The quest for identity is imperative for understanding the self and having the sense of belonging. It also helps the individual identify with the society he lives in, and with the world. Protagonists in postcolonial novels have a hard time finding their place and struggle to fit between the native and imperial world. Kureishi’s novel reveals the question about the newly born identity.

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