Hanif Kureishi

As one of Japan’s most celebrated authors of the Post War Era, Osamu Dazai’s work, as well as his own life, has been examined and analyzed by countless students and researchers from multiple perspectives. Many such readers find themselves fascinated by the symbolism Dazai employed in his novels to express his views on cultural, socioeconomic, and even feministic issues that plagued his conscious mind. Kazuko, the main character and narrator of The Setting Sun (1947, translated in 1956 by Donald Keene)

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), one of the most regarded German artists of the twentieth century (Wikipedia, 2014.), was a realist artist who created artworks to represent the hardships and sorrows in life. Her most well-known work, Woman with Dead Child, created in 1903, is a soft etching that shows the expressive human form of a mother and her dead child. This highly emotional artwork shows the deep grief of the woman expressed towards her dead child and her want to keep holding on. The main subject

What does it feel like to be raised in an immigrant family? In the essay “Mother tongue” by Amy Tan, the author describes how her mother’s English influences her in her career and life that the “mother tongue” does not limit her as a writer, but shaped her and her perception on life instead. And her attitude to her mother’s English changes from the initial embarrassment to the final appreciation. Tan’s attitude towards her mother’s English begins with embarrassment and humiliation. Growing up in

The passing of Laertes and Ophelia’s mother influences their self esteem and dependency in outside relationships because it is in these close levels of intimacy “that initial unresolved conflicts within the family are reenacted” and initiated subconsciously (Tyson 18). However, both exhibit and perform the reenactment of their deepest, hidden feelings about their mother’s absence in two different and distinct manners. Furthermore, it is directly verified that when experimented, “...research links

stories published during the tumultuous postcolonial period of the late 1980s' and early 1990's, Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic and Amy Tan's Two Kinds, harness the provocative power of prose to explore the quintessentially modern cultural theme of dual and transitional identity. By juxtaposing the paternal expectation of father Parvez with the harsh reality his militarized, extremist son Ali, Kureishi exposes the fallacious notion of the "British dream" offered to immigrants from former colonies

Chaudhuri and Hanif Kureishi convey their atmospheres through character relationships involving greed and symbolic ideas. Within “The Old Masters,” the reader is focused on the relationship between Pramathesh and Ranjit--two colleagues who work together--and their lives as time progresses. Throughout “The Racer,” the reader experiences the failing marriage of a husband and wife and their desire to compete in a race and win to show superiority over one another. Although Chaudhuri and Kureishi utilize symbolism

is, however, whether it is too good to be true, and recently, with the deep financial crises, many have come to face the fact that everything, even capitalism itself, comes with a price. Mike, a hardworking father of two, and the main character of Hanif Kureishi’s short story “The Decline of the West” from 2010, is an example of

The title of the short story by Hanif Kureishi is inspired by a book with the same title ”The Decline of the West” written by historian and philospher Oswald Spegler in 1918. In the two volume book Spegler revised how we looked at history and how we devided it in to epochs. He was of the thought that history should be divided into cultures instead of epochs, and in the book he introduced the reader to eight different cultures which where: the roman, the aztec, the egyptian, the babylonian, the chinese

In this essay response I shall discuss the social and historical context of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and My Son the Fanatic and how they enhance our understanding of the texts and then compare the two in their respective contexts. Religious extremism is a social ideology that is heavily implemented into both A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and My Son the Fanatic. With Steven Dedalus being subjected to his traditional family views of Catholicism as was the author of A Portrait

Simultaneously, after 1990 there was a rise in the number of Black and Asian newsreaders on both local and national TV. (Panayi 292) According to Panayi, this is a remarkable progress as it reflects the entry of migrants or people with migrant background into the elites of British society. (292) 3.5 Literature Since the post-war period, migrants and their descendants have also to a greater extent entered the centre of British literature. (Panayi 292) Many of them have worked with their personal