UK - Literature of Multicultural Authors

1. multiculturalism

1.1. fail?

2. topics

2.1. economic

2.1.1. unemployment

2.1.2. Thatcherism

2.1.3. entrepreneurism

2.2. social

2.2.1. religion

2.2.2. racism

2.2.3. race riots

2.2.4. culture clash

2.2.5. authority

2.2.6. violence

3. bildungsroman

4. postcolonial studies

4.1. subject vs. object

4.2. postcolonialism

4.3. effect of immigration

4.3.1. new VS. old british identity

4.4. effect of demise of BE

4.5. concerned with

4.5.1. identities

4.5.2. cultures

4.5.3. history

4.5.4. literature

5. poststructuralism

5.1. instability

5.2. stable "self" is a fictional construct

5.3. decentralisation

5.3.1. decentering of the subject

6. postmordernism

7. 1st gen. authors

7.1. Naipaul

7.2. George Lamming

7.3. E.K. Braithwait

7.4. Sam Selvon

8. 2nd gen. authors

8.1. Kureishi

8.2. Smith

8.3. Adebayo

8.4. Ali

8.5. Levy

9. 1st VS. 2nd generation

10. identity

10.1. hybridity

10.1.1. interdependent construction of identities

10.1.1.1. binary oppositions

10.2. mimicry

10.3. self vs. other

10.4. identity vs. alterity

10.5. plural, multicultural identities