Hanif Kureishi
"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...
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"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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Liquid Windows: Kureishi as Storyteller11From Bromley to Baron's Court: Plays, Early Prose, and English Tradition182Films with Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid393Author: The Buddha of Suburbia624Auteur: London Kills Me855Adapter: The Buddha of Suburbia on Film1056Author Again: The Black Album1217Author in Process: Love in a Blue Time1488We Are Family: Lovers and Love in Kureishi1769Over the Rainbow: Immigrant Dreams19510Postcolonial Identities: Redefined Nationalism21611Kureishi's Storytelling: Liquid Windows240Notes259Appendix267Credits271Bibliography281Index287
