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Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and the Depiction of English Society in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim

Abstract:Hanif Kureishi’s first novel employs grotesque realism to lash out comically at the restrictions and stupidities of English society. So does Kingsley Amis’s carnivalesque Lucky Jim (1954), which influenced the writing of The Buddha of Suburbia (1990). In both novels, however, the political critique is compromised, but not totally annulled, by the self-seeking actions of the two protagonists, both of whom seem more intent on advancing their own interests than on improving society. The two novels contrast, furthermore, in their handling of power relations. Race is not a factor in Jim Dixon’s struggles, but it is an inescapable issue for Karim Amir.