Hybrid Mimic Identities in Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette and The Budha of Suburbia | ||
| مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Volume 75, Issue 75, August 2024 | ||
| Document Type: العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/artman.2024.301196.2681 | ||
| Authors | ||
| دعاء حمدى فؤاد إبراهيم* 1; دعاء حمدى فؤاد إبراهيم هادى2 | ||
| 1تربية | ||
| 2التربية جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| postcolonial theory is an interdisciplinary area dedicated to analyzing the issues concerning colonization and decolonization, with a clear focus on a radical criticism of neocolonialism, colonialism, and imperialism. Postcolonialism sheds a great light on diasporic immigrants who prefer to leave their homeland and stay their whole life in the host countries such as London in the present study. The current research pinpoints two important theoretical notions in the postcolonial theory that are deeply analyzed by the prominent critic Homi Bhabha: hybridity and mimicry. Hybridity refers to the mixture of Eastern and Western cultures. postcolonial literature, mimicry is most frequently observed when individuals from a colonized society imitate the language, clothing, political views, or cultural practices of their colonizers. Then, the research moves to apply the two ideas on Hanif Kureishi`s most prominent works: the play My Beautiful Laundrette and the novel Budha of suburbia. It delves into the protagonists` identities in these works. The research moves to show how the state of hybridity the protagonists face makes them mimic the westerners even their sexual lifestyle. Thereafter, it highlights how the hybrid status quo results into the protagonists` sexual orientation. The research reaches to a clearcut finding that Kuresihi`s characters regard London as their third space where they obviously prefer to mimic the British in all their attitudes rather than clinging to their South Asian heritage. lism. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| postcolonialism; hybridity; mimicry; Bhabha; Kureishi | ||
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