Hanif Kureishi : Contemporary Critical Perspectives Hardback
Edited by Professor Susan Alice (City University of New York, USA) Fischer
Part of the Contemporary Critical Perspectives series
Hardback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:13/08/2015
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- ISBN:9781472513342
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:13/08/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781472513342
