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Tell me a story Dad: (Post)memory and the archaeology of subjectivity in Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart
(2016-03-22)
This article argues that there are complex connections between imagined and lived experiences of “Britishness” in Hanif Kureishi’s (re)constructions of the past in his memoir My Ear at His Heart. These connections are ...
Familial Conduits of Remembrance: Storytelling and belonging in Fractured Cyprus
(2017)
This article is the culmination of thirty years of maternal storytelling and the processes associated with it, vis-à-vis the formation of individual and collective identities in my divided homeland, focusing on how the ...
Tell me a story Dad: (Post) memory and the archaeology of subjectivity in Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart
(2016)
This article argues that there are complex connections between imagined and lived experiences of “Britishness” in Hanif Kureishi’s (re)constructions of the past in his memoir My Ear at His Heart. These connections are ...
Re-thinking Desire: Constructing the Male Self in Hanif Kureishi
(2017)
Hanif Kureishi’s work has focused on the shifting and polyvalent manifestations of desire within a socio-political context during the last decades in Britain. The basic contention of such dynamics is that Kureishi’s work ...
Re-imagining Identity: Revisiting Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lady Stephenson Library, 2017)
Hanif Kureishi’s work focuses on the shifting and polyvalent manifestations of desire and sexuality within the social and cultural realms in Britain, opening up spaces in the cultural landscape to include – intentionally– ...
Re-visiting the Raj Revival Genre: Expressions of Masculinity in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
The Cypriot Affect: The First Pride Parade in Cyprus and the Queering of Cypriot Culture
(InterAlia, 2022-12)
In May 2014 the first ever Gay Pride Parade was held with tremendous success in Cyprus, a society that is still by-and-large very conservative. At the same time, in an adjacent street, the powerhouse that is the Greek ...
Imagining Pasts, Writing Lives—Familial Narratives, Memory, and the ‘Ideological I’ in Imbi Paju’s Memories Denied
(Brill, 2020)
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Imbi Paju’s mother, Aino, along with her sister, Vaike, were sent to a Siberian gulag in 1948, where they spent six years until their release in 1954; from that story, an author was ...