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The Margins Write the Empire Down How identity and Language in Rushdie´s Midnight´s Children and Kureishi´s The Buddha of Suburbia Subvert Britain´s Cultural Hegemony
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Ao longo da presente dissertação analisamos, com base em conceitos e na metodologia dos Estudos Pós-Coloniais, de que forma o conceito de identidade e o questionar de metanarrativas (como história ou nação) permitem contradizer os supostos valores e princípios da hegemonia cultural britânica nos romances Midnight`s Children (1981), de Salman Rushdie, e The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), de Hanif Kureishi. Ambos os romances, representativos da ficção pós-colonial e pós-moderna britânica, são escolhidos para demonstrar como o conceito de identidade e como estratégias narrativas, como o humor, o realismo mágico ou a fantasia, são usadas para subverter expectativas e criticar leituras únicas de universos culturais como o britânico. Ambos desafiam quer as expetativas de encontrar a defesa de uma etnia/cultura, quer a demonização ou culpabilização de uma outra cultura, permitindo questionar leituras etnocêntricas e perspetivas estabelecidas.
Based on Post-Colonial concepts and methodology, this dissertation analyzes how the concept of identity and the questioning of metanarratives (such as history or nation) allows for the contradiction of the (supposed) values and principles of British cultural hegemony in Midnight`s Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie, and The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), by Hanif Kureishi. These two novels, which are representative of British post-colonialism and postmodernism, are chosen in order to demonstrate how their depiction of identity and how narrative strategies like humour magical realism or fantasy are used to subvert expectations and criticize single interpretations of cultural universes like the British one. Both novels defy the reader`s expectations of finding the defence of one ethnicity/culture as opposed to the demonization or culpability of another which allows the questioning of established perspectives
Based on Post-Colonial concepts and methodology, this dissertation analyzes how the concept of identity and the questioning of metanarratives (such as history or nation) allows for the contradiction of the (supposed) values and principles of British cultural hegemony in Midnight`s Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie, and The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), by Hanif Kureishi. These two novels, which are representative of British post-colonialism and postmodernism, are chosen in order to demonstrate how their depiction of identity and how narrative strategies like humour magical realism or fantasy are used to subvert expectations and criticize single interpretations of cultural universes like the British one. Both novels defy the reader`s expectations of finding the defence of one ethnicity/culture as opposed to the demonization or culpability of another which allows the questioning of established perspectives
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Literatura comparada Identidade Cultura britânica pós-colonialismo Hegemonia cultural Midnight`s Children The Buddha of Suburbia Postcolonialism Identity Cultural hegemony