Research Article

“Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia

Volume: 8 Number: 4 October 15, 2019
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“Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia

Abstract


             Since the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the idea of immigrant identity has been re-evaluated and problematized with the rise of a diasporic questioning of territorial roots, cultural differences and pre-determined borders. Essentializing point of view in the field of post-colonial studies, which is used to define centre/periphery, belonging/nonbelonging, nation/diaspora and self/other, has highlighted the identity formation of immigrants as a linear process in which non-Western European immigrants reconstruct their identities as citizens of the First World. Hinged on the idea that any category or group needs borders that may be physical, illusory, or metaphorical, in order to define and distinguish itself and its difference from the others (these may be body borders, nation borders, or racial and ethnic borders), one of the common themes of such an approach is to display firm national and ethnic boundaries set by colonial and neo-colonial practices, and to analyse representations of newcomers within the dominant discourse as outsiders or aliens. Categorical borders and social meanings attributed to those groups, consciously and unconsciously, shape structural features of othering. Kureishi’s magnum opus, The Buddha of Suburbia, a significant immigrant novel, deals with the verbal and physical consequences of othering and racism through the protagonist, Karim, his family and friends. This paper aims to explore the idea of otherization in The Buddha of Suburbia, and how Western discourse tries to construct a stable marginalized immigrant identity through appropriating and assimilating the other as a part of European ethnocentrism. 

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 15, 2019

Submission Date

April 4, 2019

Acceptance Date

June 12, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 8 Number: 4

APA
Okuroğlu Özün, Ş. (2019). “Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 8(4), 3146-3160. https://doi.org/10.33206/mjss.549295
AMA
1.Okuroğlu Özün Ş. “Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia. MJSS. 2019;8(4):3146-3160. doi:10.33206/mjss.549295
Chicago
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. 2019. “‘Otherization’ In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia”. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi 8 (4): 3146-60. https://doi.org/10.33206/mjss.549295.
EndNote
Okuroğlu Özün Ş (October 1, 2019) “Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi 8 4 3146–3160.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Okuroğlu Özün, “‘Otherization’ In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia”, MJSS, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 3146–3160, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.33206/mjss.549295.
ISNAD
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. “‘Otherization’ In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia”. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi 8/4 (October 1, 2019): 3146-3160. https://doi.org/10.33206/mjss.549295.
JAMA
1.Okuroğlu Özün Ş. “Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia. MJSS. 2019;8:3146–3160.
MLA
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. “‘Otherization’ In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia”. MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 4, Oct. 2019, pp. 3146-60, doi:10.33206/mjss.549295.
Vancouver
1.Şule Okuroğlu Özün. “Otherization” In Hanıf Kureıshı’s The Buddha Of Suburbia. MJSS. 2019 Oct. 1;8(4):3146-60. doi:10.33206/mjss.549295

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