Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
GENDER IDENTITY IN BRITISH POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL: HANIF KUREISHI'S ««THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA««
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2015
Языканглийский
  • Nesmelova Olga Olegovna, author
  • Shevchenko Arina Rafailevna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Shevchenko A.R, Nesmelova O.O., Gender identity in British postcolonial novel: Hanif Kureishi's ««The Buddha of Suburbia««//Social Sciences (Pakistan). - 2015. - Vol.10, Is.4. - P.421-425.
    Annotation The study deals with problems of gender identity and their reflection in one of the most popular and prominent trends of contemporary British fiction-postcolonial literature. In general, the gender problematic has become one of current interest at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. It is among the most topical questions not only for social and psychologist studies but also for literature ones. As a part of world culture and art, literature has been always inseparably bound with all of the processes and phenomena taking place in the society. That's why, the way how postcolonialism and gender issues interact within the confines of modern British literature can be rather versatile field for the research. So that the debut novel of one of the most famous representatives of the English authors with non-British roots. «The Buddha of Suburbia« by half-English half-Pakistanian Hanif Kureishi-becomes a very interesting example of gender, cultural and national discourses' combination that in i
    Keywords contemporary British novel, multiculturalism, postcolonial literature
    The name of the journal Social Sciences (Pakistan)
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