Naslov
The Nineties in Hanif Kureishi's Fiction

Autori
Ukić Košta, Vesna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
40th APEAA Meeting / - , 2019, 1-1

Skup
40th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo- American Studies (APEAA)

Mjesto i datum
Porto, Portugal, 06.06.2019. - 08.06.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Hanif Kureishi, the nineties, urban, identity, pop culture

Sažetak
One of the first authors to address the experience of being mixed race in contemporary British society in his 1990 novel 'The Buddha of Suburbia', Hanif Kureishi certainly paved the way for a whole new generation of young writers. As he himself states in an interview, “most British writing was about the Empire. It was not written from the standpoint of the black characters. It was written from the view of the white characters. I thought to myself, let’s start telling these stories.” The stories he started telling and sharing with his readers, however, did not only reflect concerns that are all too often pigeonholed as postcolonial writing. Kureishi’s fiction that followed 'The Buddha' in the course of the nineties is that of a multi-ethnic intellectual fascinated with urban culture, rock’n’roll music, drugs, sex and humour, and truly unbothered by the division between high and popular culture. He never patronises but rather straightforwardly portrays turn-of- the-century British society troubled by the decline of moral values, demands of a multi- ethnic/multicultural society, and concerns and worries of second- generation immigrants and their families always seen as Other. Kureishi’s portrayal is set against the background of ‘sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’, the essence of life in the eyes of many of his protagonists. This presentation sets out to explore key issues that our author centred on in his fiction in the nineties: coming-of-age, biracial identity and being torn between two cultures, urban existence, the decline of the family, relationships and life after the breakup/divorce, the influence of popular culture (the rise of rave- culture), and many others.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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