Hanif Kureishi

by Bart J. Moore-Gilbert

This comprehensive critical study of Hanif Kureishi details the writer's career to date. Kureishi has explored a number of key social and cultural issues of recent years, including the legacies of colonialism, the paradoxes of multi-culturalism, changing conceptions of class, gender and sexuality, globalization, and relations between popular culture and the canon. Bart Moore-Gilbert's authoritative text places Kureishi's writing in its historical, social, cultural, and critical contexts, and provides detailed readings of his major works.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 2002

About the author

Bart Jason Moore-Gilbert was Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was the author of Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices and Politics, Kipling and “Orientalism”, and editor of Literature and Imperialism, Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s, The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure?, Writing India: British Representations of India 1857-1990 and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.

Reviews

[ilham 🫧 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, I quite enjoyed this biography.

[Pol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucid introduction to Kureishi's oeuvre, clearly written and fairly easy to get into. The 'critical overview and conclusion' chapter is especially useful for an accessible adumbration of Kureishi's texts when approached through the lens of postcolonial theory. Moore-Gilbert was passionate about Kureishi and it shews in this book. Unfortunately a bit old, and we probably won't see any revisions from the man himself as Prof. Moore-Gilbert has sadly died. Would benefit from updating by someone else.