UK - Literature of Multicultural Authors

1. multiculturalism

1.1. fail?

2. 1st gen. authors

2.1. Naipaul

2.2. George Lamming

2.3. E.K. Braithwait

2.4. Sam Selvon

3. 2nd gen. authors

3.1. Kureishi

3.2. Smith

3.3. Adebayo

3.4. Ali

3.5. Levy

4. 1st VS. 2nd generation

5. identity

5.1. hybridity

5.1.1. interdependent construction of identities

5.1.1.1. binary oppositions

5.2. mimicry

5.3. self vs. other

5.4. identity vs. alterity

5.5. plural, multicultural identities

6. topics

6.1. economic

6.1.1. unemployment

6.1.2. Thatcherism

6.1.3. entrepreneurism

6.2. social

6.2.1. religion

6.2.2. racism

6.2.3. race riots

6.2.4. culture clash

6.2.5. authority

6.2.6. violence

7. bildungsroman

8. postcolonial studies

8.1. subject vs. object

8.2. postcolonialism

8.3. effect of immigration

8.3.1. new VS. old british identity

8.4. effect of demise of BE

8.5. concerned with

8.5.1. identities

8.5.2. cultures

8.5.3. history

8.5.4. literature

9. poststructuralism

9.1. instability

9.2. stable "self" is a fictional construct

9.3. decentralisation

9.3.1. decentering of the subject

10. postmordernism