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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. -- .
In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart
new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi. Incorporating
original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering
significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical
understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the
momentous economic and social forces reshaping India's major
cities. This timely volume responds not only to the contextual
challenge of a Delhi transformed by economic liberalisation and
commercial growth into a global megacity, but also to the emergent
formal and generic changes through which this process has been
monitored and critiqued in writing. The collection includes studies
of the city as a disabling metropolis, as a space of marginal
(electronic) text, as a zone of gendered spatiality and sexual
violence, and as a terrain in which 'urban villagers' have been
displaced by the growing city. It also provides close analyses of
emerging genres such as urban comix, digital narratives, literary
reportage, and city biography. Delhi: New Literatures of the
Megacity will be of interest to students and researchers in
disciplines ranging from postcolonial and global literature to
cultural studies, civic history, and South Asian and urban studies.
It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about
Britain's heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still
overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of
British culture, politics and national identity during the period
1870-1950. The first anthology of primary material
interdisciplinary devoted to the study of the history of the South
Asian presence in Britain over the period, it selects a wide range
of official and non-official archival sources. It identifies four
key areas of South Asian impact - minority rights, war, culture and
reception, and representation. Highlighting the current relevance
of South Asian engagement, it projects contemporary national
concerns back into the past and offers alternative ways of
conceiving of the making of modern Britain. -- .
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of
diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran
Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri
from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes
these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary
women's fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to
the authors' distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - as well as India - this study
destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India.
It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers' metropolitan
contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored
literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the
ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist
writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs
from Anglo-American feminism.
South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first book
to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of
South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based
on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing
houses. This comparison of succeeding generations of writers who
emigrated to, or were born in, Britain examines how the experience
of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary
market place, and the critical reception of them, changed
significantly throughout the twentieth century. Ranasinha shows how
the aesthetic, cultural, and political context changed
significantly for each generation, producing radically different
kinds of writing and transforming the role of the postcolonial
writer of South Asian origin.
The extensive use of original materials from publishers' archives
shows how shifting political, academic, and commercial agendas in
Britain and North America influenced the selection, content,
presentation, and consumption of many of these texts. The
differences between writers of different generations can thus in
part be understood in terms of the different demands of their
publishers and expectations of readers in each decade. Writers from
different generations are paired accordingly in each chapter: Nirad
Chaudhuri (1897-1999) with Tambimuttu (1915-83); Ambalavener
Sivanandan (born 1923) with Kamala Markandaya (born 1924); Salman
Rushdie (born 1947) with Farrukh Dhondy (born 1944); and Hanif
Kureishi (born 1954) with Meera Syal (born 1963). Raja Rao, Mulk
Raj Anand, Attia Hosain, V.S Naipaul, and Aubrey Menen are also
discussed.
This sourcebook offers alternative ways of conceiving of the making
of modern Britain. It intervenes in contemporary debates about
Britain's heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still
overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of
British culture, politics and national identity during the period
1870-1950. The first anthology of primary material
interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence
in Britain over the period, it selects a wide range of official and
non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of
South Asian impact - minority rights, war, culture and reception,
and representation. The current relevance of South Asian engagement
is underscored, projecting contemporary national concerns back into
the past. -- .
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