Neurodivergent Consciousness and Post Colonial Survival: A Comparative Study of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" and "The Buddha of Suburbia"

Author(s)	Shubhrashivangi Tiwary
Country	India
Abstract	Postcolonial literature has long explored identity instability, displacement, and fragmentation as outcomes of migration and empire. Recent advances in trauma theory, neuroqueer rhetoric, and cognitive literary studies, however, offer new frameworks for understanding these disruptions as formal inscriptions of altered cognitive processes shaped by historical violence rather than merely symbolic representations of cultural dislocation. This research examines how neurodivergent awareness appears as an adaptive survival strategy in postcolonial situations by contrasting Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous with Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia. The narrative consciousnesses of the protagonists in both novels depart from the accepted standards of stability, linear temporality, and consistency. Using sensory fragmentation and nonlinear perception, Little Dog, a Vietnamese American narrator impacted by migration, domestic violence, and inherited war trauma, investigates memory and identity. Karim Amir, a British-Indian narrator, uses attentional mobility, performative multiplicity, and adaptive self-construction to negotiate racialised urban modernity.
Keywords	Narrative Fragmentation, Neurodivergence, Postcolonial Trauma, Hybridity, Neuro-queer Rhetoric
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-07

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