{"product_id":"9781472513342","title":"Hanif Kureishi : Contemporary Critical Perspectives","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHanif Kureishi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, \u003ci\u003eMy Beautiful Laundrette\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), remains a key work in redefining our sense of what it means to be English in the postcolonial era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading scholars of contemporary British fiction and culture to reassess the full range of the author's writings, from novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe Black Album\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy Son the Fanatic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSomething to Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e to films such as \u003ci\u003eSammy and Rosie Get Laid, My Son the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFanatic\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Venus\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003ci\u003e, The Last Word\u003c\/i\u003e. The volume includes interviews with Stephen Frears, the director of \u003ci\u003eMy Beautiful Launderette\u003c\/i\u003e, and with Hanif Kureishi himself, as well as a foreword by Roger Michell, who has directed several of the author's screenplays, most recently \u003ci\u003eLe Week-End\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“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 work.” –\u003ci\u003e Ariel: A Review of International English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472513342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40627998392526,"sku":"9781472513342","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_5561a960-95d2-4de3-81b6-599c7041f94e.jpg?v=1638753927","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472513342","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}