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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi Contemporary literature

Hanif Kureishi

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Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture. His first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), remains a key work in redefining our sense of what it means to be English in the postcolonial era. Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary British fiction and culture to reassess the full range of the author's writings, from novels such as The Black Album, My Son the Fanatic and Something to Tell You to films such as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, My Son the Fanatic and Venus. As well as exploring Kureishi's handling of such themes as Thatcherism, terrorism, race, class and sexuality, the book move moves beyond sociological and psychoanalytical approaches, examining the stylistic features of his most recent novel, The Last Word. The volume includes interviews with Stephen Frears, the director of My Beautiful Launderette, and with Hanif Kureishi himself, as well as a foreword by Roger Michell, who has directed several of the author's screenplays, most recently Le Week-End.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2015-08-13
Publication Date:
2015-08-13
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472513347
ISBN13:
9781472513342
Weight:
458 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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