Hanif Kureishi

by Ruvani Ranasinha

This study evaluates Kureishi's contribution to contemporary British fiction; his screen plays, novels and plays evoke a multicultural London peopled by sexually liberated protagonists. In chronicling Britain's shifting racialised boundaries during the late seventies and eighties, Kureishi disrupts simple, monolithic notions of identity. His works show how constructs of generation, class, sexuality and gender impinge on the contested issue of what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746309511
• ISBN13: 9780746309513
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"