Pilgrimage: Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of suburbia"

• Autores: Isaías Naranjo Acosta
• Localización: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, ISSN 0211-5913, Nº 28, 1994 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Narrativa postcolonial/postmodernista en lengua inglesa), págs. 53-64
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia fulfills two basic requirements.

    On the one hand, the novel works as a caleidoscope of British society at the end of the XXth century. It lets us have a look at such aspects racist violence, the birth and development of punk music, or the situation of theatre in London by the end of the 1970s, just to name a few subjects Kureishi deals with. On the other hand, The Buddha of Suburbia is an account of Karim Amir’s pilgrimage to find himself, bearing in mind he is a half-bred born in a split-up family in the middle of a society that is in a crisis.