âA Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are Youâ: The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawaâs Dynamite

Isabel M. AndrÃ©s-Cuevas

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Chapter 6 âA Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are Youâ

The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawaâs Dynamite

in Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004464261_008

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Through analogy to the aspects of hybridity, in-betweenness, or mutability it comprises in its biological dimension, adolescence has often entailed a range of symbolic meanings. In many cases, adolescent characters epitomize a nationâs potential to become more aware of its social heterogeneity and its necessity to progressively forge more equitable gender and race relations (Trites, 2007: xiv-xv). On the other hand, literature frequently portrays adolescence as a moment of crucial challenges, especially inasmuch as the process of growing up involves a search for identity and a necessity to belong (Cart, 2008). In postcolonial literature, that quest for selfhood associated with the adolescent period merges with the issue of subjectivity as affected by the consequences of colonization, which involves additional difficulties for young adults, whose identities are moulded and constrained by the social, cultural, political, and historical context surrounding them (Durand, 2013: 22â23). Ravinder Randhawaâs collection of short stories Dynamite (2014) encompasses this intersection of the political and biological dimensions that are often implicit in the construction of adolescent characters. The youth depicted in these stories evince the complex pursuit for individuality on behalf of teenagersâpredominantly girlsâwhose selfhoods, due to their condition as migrants, are affected by the instability, fluidity, and in-the-process nature that are characteristic of diasporic subjects (Hall,1996: 4).

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Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

Reihe:Â Youth in a Globalizing World, Band: 15

ISBN:: 9789004464261

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 26 Jun 2021

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Chapter 6 âA Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are Youâ

The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawaâs Dynamite

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Chapter 6 âA Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are Youâ

The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawaâs Dynamite