Ruvani Ranasinha

Hanif Kureishi (eBook, ePUB)

Writing the self: A biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.

Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of immigration and social change in Britain. This is the story of how a mixed-raced child of empire who attended the local comprehensive school found success with a remarkable series of novels and screenplays, including My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, Venus and Le Week-End. The book also illuminates a larger story, not only of the artist as a young man, but of the recasting of Britain in the aftermath of decolonisation.

Drawing on journals, letters and manuscripts from Kureishi's unexplored archive, recently acquired by the British Library, and informed by interviews with his family, friends and collaborators, as well with the writer himself, Ruvani Ranasinha sheds new light on how his life animates his work. This first biography offers a vivid portrait of a major talent who has inspired a new generation of writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526147387
• Artikelnr.: 68778464

Autorenporträt

Ruvani Ranasinha is Reader in Postcolonial Literature at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1: Multiple inheritances and race (1954
73) 2: Culture, Politics and Psychoanalysis (1973
1979) 3: 'A new way of being British' (1980
1989) 4: Fathers and Sons (1990
1999) 5: Psychoanalysis and Life
Writing (2000
2009) 6: Writing, reading and life
writing in a post
literary culture (2010 to the present) Conclusion: evaluating Kureishi's legacy and its curation within the archive and outlining further trails for future researchers.