Black British literature is the space of representation of the migratory flow. It analyses the effect of emigration on literary productions. The present study is an investigation on the second generation of writers with the case of Hanif Kureishi, a writer from the Indian diaspora born in the United Kingdom, who portrays the conditions of Indian immigrants in England. It seeks to scrutinize The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and takes as a starting two different axes based on the works of Homi Bhabha and John Searle. Consequently, Bhabha’s notion of hybridity serves as a theoretical tool to reveal Kureishi’s strategy to minimize the border between the native and the host culture and to resolve diasporic difficulties. John Searle’s illocutionary acts are also used to analyze the discourse of the hybrid characters as well as the impact of space in the creation of a new identity.