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Hanif Abdurraqib, 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textHanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of a New York Times best-selling biography on A Tribe Called Quest called Go Ahead in the Rain (University of Texas Press, 2019); A Fortune For Your Disaster (Tin House, 2019); The Crown Ain\u27t Worth Much (Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press, 2016), which was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award; and They Can\u27t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Esquire, GQ, and Publisher\u27s Weekly, among others. He is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, and a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve L. Ewing. Abdurraqib has a forthcoming book that is a history of Black performance in the United States titled They Don\u27t Dance No Mo\u27 (Random House, 2020)
"Il teatro di Hanif Kureishi"
No full textIl saggio vuole essere un'introduzione quanto più ampia e articolata possibile al teatro dell'autore britannico Hanif Kureishi, riguardo al quale ancora non esiste una trattazione monografica, specifica ed esaustiva. A questo scopo, vengono indagate le varie fasi della scrittura drammaturgica dell'autore, compiendo innanzitutto un excursus, e affrontando poi, nel dettaglio, la caratterizzazione più politica della fase di esordio (a cavallo tra gli anni Settanta e gli anni Ottanta) e quella più intimistica del ritorno alle scene nei primi anni del terzo millennio. Più specificamente, il paragrafo dedicato all'impegno politico dell'autore affronta il rapporto con il 'fringe theatre' londinese e analizza a mo' di esempio l'opera "Birds of Passage", all'interno della quale, oltre alla questione dei rapporti di classe, di genere e famigliari nel periodo del governo thatcheriano, si ritrovano già enucleati anche i temi dell'immigrazione e della discriminazione razziale: tutti argomenti che saranno molto frequentati dall'autore anche nella successiva produzione cinematografica e letteraria, per la quale egli è sicuramente più conosciuto. Il paragrafo seguente, dedicato alle opere drammatiche scritte dopo circa un quindicennio di interruzione, si concentra in particolare su "When the Night Begins", pubblicato qui in traduzione e ancora mai rappresentato in Italia. In esso la virata già sperimentata altrove da Kureishi verso temi più circoscritti, come l'amore di coppia o il rapporto tra padri e figli, viene affrontato all'interno di un testo denso, ricco di sfumature e contraddizioni
The enigma of abandonment: re-thinking the importance of Hanif Kureishi's work for multiculturalism
No full textChapter 5Critics have often attempted to emphasize Hanif Kureishi’s importance for debates about multiculturalism by endowing his work with representational status; he has, variously, been labelled a ‘British Asian’, a ‘postcolonial’, an ’ethnic’, and a ‘post-ethnic’ writer. This has often led to a failure to recognize the multiplicity of his writing and to engage fully with its complexities. Indeed, criticism of Kureishi has often been at its most confused when it has attempted to account for his entire oeuvre, and there has been much anxiety over the issue of who or what his writing finally ‘represents’. Critically examining the theoretical contexts within which Kureishi has been read, this chapter argues that it is not productive to think of him as a ‘representative’ writer of any sort. It explores the notion of abandonment in Kureishi’s work, theorizing it as a new means of understanding the importance of his writing for contemporary debates about multiculturalism
Hanif Kureishi
No full textprofilo bio bibliografico dello scritore contemporaneo Hanif Kureishi, pakistano residente a Londra e scrittore di lingua ingles
Transmission Electron Microscopy of Amorphisation and Recrystallisation of Silicon Nanowires under in situ Ion Irradiation
No full textSuited Up in the Compositional Realm of ‘The Artist Formerly Known as Prince’: Identity, Belonging, and Acceptance in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album
No full textIn the opening passages of Hanif Kureishi’s novel The Rainbow Sign (1986), the author introduces the reader to Hanif Kureishi: a Londoner born to an English mother and Pakistani father, a father who “came to England from Bombay in 1947 to be educated by the old colonial power†(9). Kureishi’s childhood, filled with cousins, aunts, and uncles, included “important, confident people†(9), who frequently took him, in taxis, to hotels, restaurants, music houses, and other places of interest during his growing-up years in London. He recounts childhood incidents where his Pakistani heritage became a central point of focus in his life. It is an ambivalent rendering
Financial Sector Reforms and International Trade Competitiveness: A Case Study of Pakistan
No full textThis paper explores the relationship between financial development and international trade competitiveness in the case of Pakistan. An earlier study on this issue, Hanif and Jafri (2008), has some empirical limitations as it is based on Engle-Granger (1987) two steps procedure while dealing with multiple variables regressions. In this study we have used ARDL model by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (1999). We have also applied Johansen test for cointegration and checked the robustness of results established by the ARDL model. We have estimated the cointegration vector using Stock and Watson (1993) dynamic OLS method. We find a stable long run positive relationship between international trade competitiveness of Pakistan and its financial sector development. The estimated external finance elasticity of international trade competitiveness of textile sector in Pakistan is found to be 0.26 which is significantly higher than 0.17 estimated by Hanif and Jafri (2008).Financial Development, Competitiveness
Overturning imperial views : a talk with Hanif Kureishi
No full textHanif Kureishi, author of the screenplay of My Beauliful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as well as numerous stage plays, was in Barcelona in June 1991 to promote his first novel The Buddha of Suburhia
Overturning imperial views : a talk with Hanif Kureishi
No full textHanif Kureishi, author of the screenplay of My Beauliful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as well as numerous stage plays, was in Barcelona in June 1991 to promote his first novel The Buddha of Suburhia
Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Heterogeneous Panel of High Income Countries
No full textThis paper examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth for high income countries. The study focuses on both indirect finance and direct finance, separately as well as jointly. Applying the methodology of Nair-Reichert and Weinhold (2001) for causality analysis in heterogeneous panel data, two sets of results are reported. First, the evidence regarding the relationship between financial development and economic growth from a contemporaneous non-dynamic fixed effects panel estimation is mixed. Negative and statistically significant estimates of the coefficient of the inflation and financial development interaction variable indicate that financial sector development may even be harmful to economic growth when inflation is rising. Second, in contrast with the recent evidence of Beck and Levine (2003), heterogeneous panel causality analysis applied on a refined model indicates that there is no definite evidence that finance spurs economic growth or growth spurs finance. Most of our findings are in line with the Lucas (1988) view that the importance of financial matters is over-stressed. The only exception is the case of activity in stock markets where our result supports the Robinson (1952) view that finance follows enterprise.
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