![]() ![]() I look at how space, movement and identity become intertwined and inseparable within the context of British diasporic consciousness and subjectivity – all this in selected representatives of contemporary British Asian fiction: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2004), Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism (2006), Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath (1993), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and The Black Album (1995) and Meera Syal’s Anita and Me (2004). Within the scope provided by the framework and the chosen corpus, I explore ways in which space and movement are affected by one’s identity formation and, conversely, how identity is transformed by and through various forms of movement in diverse spaces and places. Through the close reading of representative novels I focus on issues like the mutually interdependent and transformative relationship between space and identity, the types of movements generated by space, and the influence movements have on space and the sense of place. ![]() My dissertation addresses the issues of space, movement and identity and investigates the complex nature of their interconnectedness in contemporary British Asian diaspora fiction. ![]()
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