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Immigrants in literature. --- Literature and society --- Minorities in literature. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- History

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Hanif Kureishi is one of the most exciting and controversial British writers who has produced significant work in a range of forms: plays, essays, novels, short stories and film. This Guide introduces and sets in context the key debates about his work, and discusses his writing in relation to such issues as gender, postcolonial theory and British identity today. By exploring Kureishi's own statements and a wide range of critical perspectives, the Guide provides a comprehensive resource for the study of one of the most important critical figures in contemporary culture.

Immigrants in literature. --- Literature and society --- Minorities in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- History --- Kureishi, Hanif --- Criticism and interpretation. --- London (England) --- In literature. --- KUREISHI (HANIF), 1954 --- -CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION

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"By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive.Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching." --

Gays in popular culture. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Homosexuality in motion pictures. --- Homosexuality in music. --- South Asians in literature. --- South Asians in mass media. --- South Asians --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Gay people in popular culture.

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Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty-first century. Figures and companies studied include: Ira Aldridge Henry Francis Downing Paul Robeson Errol John Mustapha Matura Dark and Light Theatre The Keskidee Centre Indian Art and Dramatic Society Temba Edric and Pearl Connor Tara Arts Yvonne Brewster Tamasha Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole.

South Asians in literature. --- Black people in literature. --- Theater, South Asian --- English drama --- Black theater --- History. --- South Asian authors --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Asian --- Black --- Britain --- History --- Theatre

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Sociology of literature --- Kureishi, Hanif --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- South Asians in literature. --- History --- KUREISHI (HANIF), 1954 --- -LITTERATURE ET SOCIETE --- CARACTERISTIQUES NATIONALES --- PLURALISME (SCIENCES SOCIALES) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LONDRES (GRANDE-BRETAGNE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DECOLONISATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- ANGLETERRE --- 20E SIECLE --- ANGLAISES