Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
17th METU British Novelists Conference: Hanif Kureishi and His Work, Ankara, Türkiye, 17 - 18 Aralık 2009, ss.66-72, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
London Staged as a Postcolonial City in Hanif Kureishi’s London Kills Me
Contemporary London is a post-colonial city, having marked a critical stage in the relationship of the empowered and the authorized with the excluded and the marginalized. Hanif Kureishi in his screenplay London Kills Me presents a group of ostracized and subordinate Londoners who cannot identified themselves with the organizing principles of the dominant discourse. Kureishi “seeks inclusion of the subordinate into the world of, and values privileged by, the dominant” (Needham 20). He gives voice to the underrepresented and/or misrepresented, who are rather acting on the loopholes in the dominant discourse. The lives of the characters in the play are plagued by rootlessness, yet they feel they “have to get along in a network of already established forces and representations” (McLeod 9). From a Foucauldian viewpoint, Kureishi gives voice to these delinquent Londoners on their odysseys on the way to be included into the dominant discourse; the knowledge about this group, that is, the “subjugated or marginal knowledges” have long been ignored and repressed in a functionalist coherence and formal systematization (in McHoul 15).