Hanif Kureishi

From great to good to bad In this essay I will analyse and interpret the short story “The Decline of the West” by Hanif Kureishi. Part of the analysis will focus on the story’s point of view and on the title “The Decline of the West.” This short story deals with the capitalistic society and it’s affection on families. The story is told by a limited third person narrator which is bound to the main character Mike. This influences the story because; the reader is only able to see the thoughts and

The concept of identity is a very wide and subjective area. Identities can both be chosen and given, and are sources of disconnection and connection. Identities are not solely applied to people, but to places too. A places identity can both positively and negatively affect peoples identities. My essay will examine the argument that places can be a source of inclusion and exclusion for specific communities, how identities are constructed and linked to other places and identities are marked and

Within this emerging social, cultural, and literary scenario, scholars feel the urge to identify new relevant literary paradigms, especially when dealing with the so-called "New Literatures in English" represented by the works of, say, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Ondaatje, or Joy Nozomi Kogawa” or recently through Anime with its heavy borrowing of motifs from western canonised literature and its gradual popularity as an emerging form of literary creativity. According to Merriam-Webster

“My son the fanatic” is a short story by the author Hanif Kureishi first published in The New Yorker 1994. In the story we meet the Pakistani immigrant Parvez and his son Ali. Parvez migrated from Pakistan before he got his son. They now live in London, England, where Ali was born and raised. Working as a taxi driver Parvez haven’t had an ease getting money, but with dedication, he has raised enough money for his son to get the dream education as an accountant. But lately Ali has acted significantly

Hanif Kueishi’s Buddha of Suburbia depicts a young man called Karim Amir and his search for identity in 1970s London. As the plot progresses, it becomes apparent that Karim does not fall into a distinct category, defined by sexuality, class, or race. He is a young mixed-race man with fluid sexuality. He is “a funny kind of Englishman”—a product of two old histories (Kureishi 3). He is placed in the position of a hybrid because of his cultural background, and by the endless racist encounters that

Chapter 1 Introduction We are not makers of history. We are made by history.(Martin Luther).Human history is as primitive as time. Sociologically human evolution commenced from living individually to the formation of ethnic and social groups. In literature this development is marked by many periods and stages .It can roughly located by following timeline , Ancient(3600 BC-1500 AD), Postclassical (500-1500) Modern and Post

What does an author hope to achieve by violating social norms in their stories? While some may solely do it for the thrill of being edgy and outlandish, many use it as a path to normalize something the author believes should no longer be ostracized in their society. This may come in the form of a woman becoming independent from an oppressive man, a man escaping a loveless marriage that he feels trapped in, or any other person escaping the societal chains which hold them back from their true potential

to buy new things all the time. No worries were to be shown in any family, until the crack happened. Nowadays the crisis has slowly turned around again and in school it’s still about collecting the newest items. In the short story from 2010 by Hanif Kureishi, the problem of greed and a materialized world is

Although many families try their best to continue living their lives like nothing happened, recessions can have a serious effect on their day-to-day interactions, as well as their daily lives. In the short story “The Decline of the West” written by Hanif Kureishi and published in Collected Stories in 2010, Mike and his family represents a normal family whom have fallen victims to the 2008 financial crisis. Mike and his family lives in a materialistic world in the modern western capitalistic society, to

The Decline of the West The short story “The Decline of the West” written by Hanif Kureishi and published in 2010 deals with heavy themes such as materialism, bad parenting and focuses on the dysfunctional families that can be found in our modern society as a consequence of materialism. In the short story we are introduced to the father Mike who has lost his job in corporate finance and is on his way home to tell his family. The reveal of the bad news to his dysfunctional and materialistic family