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Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Susan Alice Fischer
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Paperback. Editor(s): Fischer, Susan Alice. Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 353 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472509154
SKU
V9781472509154
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About Susan Alice Fischer
Susan Alice Fischer is Professor of English at Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York, USA. She is Editor of The Literary London Journal and Co-Editor of Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education.
Reviews for Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
This collection will be valuable to researchers and students of contemporary British literature and British Asian cultural production. The new interview with Kureishi offers a blend of funny, laconic, unpretentious, and politically serious observations from the man himself, while many of the academic essays will interest Kureishi scholars because of their concern with the writer's more recent and/or insufficiently discussed ... Read more