@article{2013,title={HANIF KUREISHI'NİN THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA VE DORIS LESSING'İN VICTORIA AND THE STAVENEYS'İNDE BELİRSİZLİK VE ARADAKALMIŞLIK},abstractNode={As a comic analysis of cultural moments of the seventies, Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia depicts different characters, white, black, racist and anti-racist. It is presented from a raced perspective through the narrator Karim Amir’s consciousness. Karim straddles two cultures as he is the son of a white British mother Margareth and Indian father Haroon. He is naturally a hybrid character and tries to understand who he is as a mixture of different races and cultures. He is always in-between and ambivalent in terms of his own identity As a consequence of colonialism, the Great Britain is multicultural and a kind of amalgamation of versatile social, ethnic and national identities. So, Karim is the product of this society. In this concept, it is possible to find smilar patterns in Doris Lessing’s “Victoria and the Staveneys” in terms of Karim’s in-betweenness and ambivalence as Lessing takes us through twenty years of the life of a young, underprivilged black girl in London. Victoria is seduced by Thomas Staveney and falls pregnant. When Victoria’s little daughter grows up, she introduces her daughter to white Staveneys. However, she is always uneasy because her daughter begins to live the ambivalence of the in-betweenness experiencing these two different and unequal life styles in multicultural Britain as Karim has done. Due to the effects of dominant culture, colonized subjects become unstable and ambiguous. As a term adopted into colonial discourse theory by Homi K. Bhabha, ambivalence gives a description of the complex structure of attraction and repulsion. It is defined as ambivalent due to the fact that the colonized subject can never completely resist to the colonizer. So both Krueshi and Lessing try to demonsrate the impact of the society on in},author={},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}