Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Liquid Windows: Kureishi as Storyteller 1
5. From Bromley to Baron's Court: Plays, Early Prose, and English Tradition 18
6. Films with Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 39
7. Author: The Buddha of Suburbia 62
8. Auteur: London Kills Me 85
9. Adapter: The Buddha of Suburbia on Film 105
10. Author Again: The Black Album 121
11. Author in Process: Love in a Blue Time 148
12. We Are Family: Lovers and Love in Kureishi 176
13. Over the Rainbow: Immigrant Dreams 195
14. Postcolonial Identities: Redefined Nationalism 216
15. Kureishi's Storytelling: Liquid Windows 240
16. Notes 259
17. Appendix 267
18. Credits 271
19. Bibliography 281
20. Index 287