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Hanif Kureishi is a British writer who has also been involved in film making since the beginning of his career. He is a Londoner , whose critically acclaimed novels and films deal with crucial issues such as coming of age, life in the suburbs and migrant/transcultural identities in Britain. In the seminar we will read and analyse a selection of Kureishi’s fictional works, including The Buddha of Suburbia, “My Son the Fanatic” and The Black Album, the novel that he wrote in the aftermath of the so-called Rushdie Affair, i.e. the controversy about The Satanic Verses and the effects of the fatwa on his friend and mentor Salman Rushdie. Moreover, we will discuss Kureishi’s The Word and the Bomb, a collection of essays and stories, and will analyse a selection of his films, such as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Buddha of Suburbia and My Son the Fanatic.
A reader containing additional material will be available from Kopiersysteme Priebe (Segerothstr.) at the beginning of the semester.
Students are required to buy (and read) the following books by Kureishi:
The Black Album, The Buddha of Suburbia and The Word and the Bomb (any paperback edition will do) |
