Collected Essays - 1986-2011 (Paperback, Main)

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situation. In the ensuing decades, he has developed these initial ideas, especially as the issue of Islam's relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of the time. Kureishi shows how flexible a form the essay can be - as intellectual as Sontag or Adam Phillips, as informal and casual as Max Beerbohm, as cool and minimalist as Joan Didion, or as provocative as Norman Mailer. As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Hanif Kureishi
Dimensions:	197 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-36245-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-571-36245-1
Barcode:	9780571362455

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