“身份构建”一直以来都是当代英国亚裔作家哈尼夫·库雷西所关注的议题。在他的首部小说《郊区佛爷》中,通过讲述克里姆的种种“越界”行为,库雷西认为后帝国时代的个人身份已不再是个单一、凝滞的概念,身份的构建只有通过不断地跨越,诸如种族、阶级、性别等边界,不断地自我更新才得以完成。这样的“越界”既解构了诸如黑/白、上层/下层、男/女等简单的二元对立结构,同时又颠覆了社会所赋予个人的传统角色。 “Identity Building ” has always been a subject of concern to contemporary British Asian writer Hanif Kuressi. In his first novel, “Suburban Buddha,” Kuressi believes that the personal identity of the post-Empire era is no longer a single, stagnant concept, but only through the Continuous across, such as race, class, gender and other boundaries, continue to be self-renewal was completed. Such “transgressions” deconstructs the simple binary opposition structures such as black / white, upper / lower strata, men / women, and at the same time subverts the traditional role given to individuals by society.