Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller / Edition 1

by Kenneth C. Kaleta

Overview

"Hanif Kureishi is a proper Englishman. Almost." So observes biographer Kenneth Kaleta. Well known for his films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, the Anglo-Asian screenwriter, essayist, and novelist has become one of the leading portrayers of Britain's multicultural society. His work raises important questions of personal and national identity as it probes the experience of growing up in one culture with roots in another, very different one.

This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi. Kenneth Kaleta interviewed Kureishi over several years and enjoyed unlimited access to all of his working papers, journals, and personal files. From this rich cache of material, he opens a fascinating window onto Kureishi's creative process, tracing such works as My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, The Buddha of Suburbia, London Kills Me, The Black Album, and Love in a Blue Time from their genesis to their public reception. Writing for Kureishi fans as well as film and cultural studies scholars, Kaleta pieces together a vivid mosaic of the postcolonial, hybrid British culture that has nourished Kureishi and his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292743335
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	02/01/1997
Edition description:	Univ of Texas PR ed.
Pages:	303
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Kenneth C. Kaleta is Professor of Radio-TV-Film at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Liquid Windows: Kureishi as Storyteller
• 1. From Bromley to Baron's Court: Plays, Early Prose, and English Tradition
• 2. Films with Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
• 3. Author: The Buddha of Suburbia
• 4. Auteur: London Kills Me
• 5. Adapter: The Buddha of Suburbia on Film
• 6. Author Again: The Black Album
• 7. Author in Process: Love in a Blue Time
• 8. We Are Family: Lovers and Love in Kureishi
• 9. Over the Rainbow: Immigrant Dreams
• 10. Postcolonial identities: Redefined Nationalism
• Afterword. Kureishi's Storytelling: Liquid Windows
• Notes
• Appendix
• Credits
• Bibliography
• Index