The identity construct of Karim Amir in relation to family, lower middle class struggle, race, sexuality and violence

• Main Author: Dalila Diyana Abd Majid
• Other Authors: Lee Hyun Jung
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46400
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay aims to explore the identity issues central to Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia. Karim Amir, the protagonist, struggles with his identity formation, essentially having no sense of what it means to be Karim Amir or an Englishman or any individual of his choice because of the ci...