main themes in the buddha of suburbia and some ideas to talk about them...

geography in th Buddha of suburbia

1. homes

A. flats and houses

B. decorating

C. settling

2. migrations

A. migrants

B. British view on migrants

100. internal migrations drifting / wandering

2. from periphery to centre.

A. from the suburb to the city centre

B. from father to son: the quest for identity

C. towards oneself.

potential themes: family / religions / analysis/ dispalcement / in-betweenens / being out place

genres and genders

introduction: genres (literary genres) and genders ( men vs women)...

1. gender issues
   A. men vs women

B. sexuality and gender issue

2. and the question of genres

A. an education novel? A picaresque novel?

B. a novel difficult to classify

3. mixing!

A. getting involved with people

B. mixing genders and genres as a reflection of the multicultural aspects of the novel?

Education

1. schooling in the Buddha of Suburbia
   A. a criticism of traditional schooling?

B. schools experiments: the second school

2. self education
   A. acquiring knowledge

B. culture means education?

3. a novel of education?

A. Karim's evolution

B. but has he achieved any goal?

context in the buddha of suburbia

1. an immigrant of the second generation in London in the 1960s-70s
   A. Karim's family
   B. perspectives on immigration.
2. 1960-70s a historical, economical and social turn

A. historical context

B. economic and social context

3. from the hippy movement to drug, sex and rock n' roll
   A. the evolution of lifestyles: music / clothes
   B. sexual freedom

100. rebelling

I and the eye

1. observing the world as it is evolving
   A. the importance of the context in the novel
   B. Karim as the observer
2. to better question the evolution of the I
   A. looking for a future

B. the quest for identity

3. in a retrospective first person narrative
   A. a first person narrative: a diary? A biography? Memoirs?

B. distance between the narrator and the main character: observing each other