“Yaars” in 1970s Suburbia: London in Hanif Kureishi’s Fiction

Abstract

Analizzando alcuni aspetti del romanzo di Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), il presente saggio intende mettere in evidenza alcuni tra i più significativi cambiamenti verificatisi a Londra a partire dagli anni ’70, in particolare la trasformazione della sua mappa etnica e del ruolo dell’immigrato, e la diffusione del fondamentalismo islamico. Kureishi analizza acutamente questioni cruciali come razza, religione, integrazione e identità, e ci fornisce un efficace spaccato della Londra degli anni ’70, permettendoci di effettuare un paragone con la situazione della Londra attuale dopo i bombardamenti del 7 luglio 2005.

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