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@article{185197,
        author = {Dr. UMAJI ANANDA PATIL},
        title = {Multiculturalism and Its Representations in Postmodern British Fiction},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {650-656},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185197},
        abstract = {Postmodern British fiction operates as a dynamic cultural and literary forum where questions of history, identity, and belonging are critically negotiated. Following the decline of the British Empire and the arrival of large immigrant communities from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, Britain’s demographic landscape underwent a profound transformation. This transformation unsettled earlier assumptions of a cohesive national identity rooted in monocultural traditions. The resulting cultural plurality, often fraught with tensions of assimilation, exclusion, and hybridity, found nuanced expression in the domain of literature. Within this framework, postmodern fiction with its rejection of fixed truths, embrace of multiplicity, and experimentation with narrative form emerged as an especially effective medium for representing multicultural realities

This paper explores the representations of multiculturalism in postmodern British fiction, with particular emphasis on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. These texts collectively foreground the lived experiences of diasporic communities while interrogating issues of race, religion, gender, and generational conflict. Through narrative strategies such as fragmentation, irony, polyphony, and intertextuality, these writers depict the contradictions and possibilities inherent in multicultural Britain. By drawing upon postcolonial and cultural theory, the study argues that postmodern British fiction destabilizes essentialist notions of identity, critiques institutional racism, and envisions hybrid spaces that reframe the meaning of Britishness in a globalized, postcolonial world.},
        keywords = {Postmodern British fiction; multiculturalism; hybridity; diaspora; identity; cultural negotiation; representation},
        month = {October},
        }