ABSTRACT
The chapter reads three British-Pakistani novels – Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), and Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag (2004) – investigating the ways in which the transformation and construction of identity and space interconnect with alternative ways of belonging. Focusing on the role which movement plays in the British-Pakistani protagonists’ sense of belonging (or the lack thereof), I map their spatial positions and routes, and contend that urban and suburban spaces may serve both as confining factors and as motors for movement, thereby becoming significant loci of rootlessness and belongingness.
