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Book SynopsisSusan 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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. * Ariel: A Review of International English Literature *
Table of ContentsForeword - Roger Michell Acknowledgements Contributors Timeline Introduction - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York 1. ‘“I Believe My Eyes”: The Transformative Cinema of Hanif Kureishi’ - Deanna Kamiel, The New School 2. ‘Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London: Hanif Kureishi’s
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - Peter Hitchcock, The City University of New York 3. ‘“The Suburbs That Did It’: Hanif Kureishi’s
The Buddha of Suburbia and Metropolitan Multicultural Fiction” - Ryan Trimm, University of Rhode Island 4. ‘Hanif Kureishi’s “Better Philosophy”: From
The Black Album to
My Son the Fanatic’ - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York 5. ‘The Enigma of Abandonment: Re-thinking Hanif Kureishi’s Importance for Multiculturalism’ - Michael Perfect, Independent 6. ‘The Parallax of Ageing: Hanif Kureishi’s
The Body’ - Jago Morrison, Brunel University 7. ‘The Other Kureishi: A Psychoanalytic Reading of
Something to Tell You’ - Geoff Boucher, Deakin University 8. ‘
The Last Word on Hanif Kureishi’ - Susie Thomas, Independent Interview: ‘A very serious business’: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation with Susan Alice Fischer Interview: ‘An extraordinary encounter’: Stephen Frears in Conversation with Susan Alice Fischer and Deanna Kamiel Bibliography Index
