Morteza Lak

[ 1 ] - Home and Diasporic Belonging: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

The current paper examines the ways the concepts of ̳home‘ and ̳belonging‘ are conceived, accepted, and imagined by the characters of Sam Selvon‘s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Hanif Kureishi‘s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990). Taken from two different but close-knit periods in twentieth-century Eng- land, the 1950s and the late 1970s, the novels represent the socio-political circumstances that fo...