| Title: | The Lure of the Guru Father: Mechanisms of Mimicry and Hybridity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men |
| Author: | Dragoș Manea |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 15, p. 160 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | This article attempts to interrogate the essentialist ontology of racial identity by focusing on two post-colonial bildungsromans and the father-son relationships depicted within. I focus on the way in which both fathers perform guru-like parts and bring into discussion the concepts of mimicry and hybridity in order to better explain their subversion of orientalist discourse. |
| Key words: | Performativity. Hybridity. Mimicry |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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