![]() Aware of his life’s inherent ironies, Karim explores his dual racial identities-one of traditional, white, English middle-class views and the other of his Indian heritage. This use of pastiche highlights Kureishi’s attempt to tie his modern themes of class and race to the tradition of the British novel and its role in depicting and exposing society’s hypocrisies.īorn to an Indian father and an English mother, Karim’s identity as an Englishman lies at the center of this story. ![]() ![]() These early British novels, like The Buddha of Suburbia, are characterized by their satirical humor, social commentary, and sexual adventure. The Buddha of Suburbia is a pastiche: a deliberate homage to British eighteenth-century initiation novels such as Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1747) and Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shandy (1759-1767), where the reader follows a charismatic narrator through his initiation into adult life. ![]()
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