What‘s the difference between Alice in Wonderland , The Wizard of Oz , A Hundred Years of Solitude , Macbeth and The Sa

1. What‘s the difference between Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, A Hundred Years of Solitude, Macbeth and The Satanic Verses? For our students: None whatsoever! They`re all far away in place and time. And too long and complicated. And in English!!! © Sem

2. What it needs to serve as a “key“: • the story must be easily understood • the plot must be simple • the conflict should rouse the students‘ interest • the setting should be here and now • coexistence of individual and general conflicts is important • incongruence with students‘ life experience generates interest • action and dialogue are to outweigh description and reflection • a “cinematographic“ structure helps • identification should be possible • transgenerational or intersexual conflicts generalize the plot • students should be able to read the text on their own © Sem

3. 194, 24/5 195, 3/4 193, 26-29 Colonial Hubris Exploitation Racism 195, 3 - 20 194, 24/5 Clashing Cultures Centre/Periphery 196, 1 - 6 189, 6 - 24 Diaspora My Son the Fanatic Hybridity 192, 6 - 12 196, 18-30 Language Identity 190, 21-30 192, 13-21 195, 15-24 Relationships Religion 199, 7 - 31 200, 4 - 9 Gender Roles Violence My Son the Fanatic as a key to the complex(pages and lines Klett edition) © Sem

4. author‘s biography short story/style narr. perspective My Son the Fanatic hist.+geogr. setting publication hist. background reception history My Son the Fanatic: general background and interpretation categories © Sem

5. Hanif Kureishi: Biographical Data 1954 Born in London. 1976 First play, Soaking the Heat, staged at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. 1979The King and Me produced at the Soho Poly. 1980The Mother Country staged in the Riverside Studios' Plays Umbrella season. 1981 Wins the George Devine Award for Outskirts, presented at the Warehouse at the Soho Poly. Borderline opens at the Royal Court Theatre. 1982 Becomes Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court. 1983Birds of Passage opens at Hampstead Theatre. 1984 Adaptation of Mother Courage staged at the Barbican 1985 Film My Beautiful Laundrette released. Kureishi’s first screenplay, My Beautiful Laundrette is nominated for BAFTA Best Screenplay Award. Wins New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

6. 1988 Film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, written by Kureishi released. The screenplay, together with Kureishi's diary about making the film with director Stephen Frears, has since been published. 1990The Buddha of Suburbia published. Novel wins the Whitbread Award for the best first novel. 1991 Release of film London Kills Me, written and directed by Kureishi. 1993 Adapts The Buddha of Suburbia for broadcast as 4 part BBC TV Miniseries. 1993 Adaptation of Mother Courage produced as a mobile tour in the UK by the National's education department. 1995 Second novel The Black Album published. The Faber Book of Pop edited with Jon Savage published. 1997 Collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, published. 1998 Film release of My Son the Fanatic, adapted from his short story by Kureishi for film. Third novel Intimacy is published. 1999 Production of his play Sleep with Me at the Royal National Theatre. Second collection of short stories, Midnight All Day published in the UK in November. 2000Good-bye Mother 2001Gabriel‘s Gift, the latest novel