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My Beautiful Laundrette | |||
British film directed by Stephen Frears based on a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was released in 1985 and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film and the New York Critics` Award. | |||
Plot | |||
The action is set up in 1980`s Britain in the Thatcher-Era in South London. The audience is introduced to the Asian-British society and social, ethnic and political issues. | |||
The main character of the story is 20 year old Omar, son of a mixed marriage his father being a former Pakistani journalist (and now is an alcoholic) and his mother being British. He is constantly busy with problems caused by his “hybridity” as he is feeling to be between the two cultures he inhabits. Furthermore Omar falls in love with Johnny who belongs to the white British society and is a former racist. | |||
Omar gets the opportunity of gaining success when his rich uncle Nasser- a Pakistani businessman representing wealth in Thatcherite Britain- offers him to take over a launderette. Omar and Johnny become business partners and built up the launderette. | |||
Important aspects | |||
My Beautiful Laundrette represents many topics of postcolonial Britain: The motivation for success in Thatcherite Britain, the issues of race and ethnicity, identity issues of the young British- Asian generation and homosexuality. Kureishi shows that nationality is not an absolute feature that characterises people when he breaks stereotypes and thus creates individual figures. | |||
Further reading: | |||
Buchanan, Bradley. Hanif Kureishi. University of Michigan: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. | |||
www.internetprojekte-in-der-schule.de/projekte/laundrette/characters/html/imagemap.html | |||
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/hanif-kureishi | |||
Revision as of 14:45, 1 July 2012
My Beautiful Laundrette
British film directed by Stephen Frears based on a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was released in 1985 and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film and the New York Critics` Award.
Plot
The action is set up in 1980`s Britain in the Thatcher-Era in South London. The audience is introduced to the Asian-British society and social, ethnic and political issues. The main character of the story is 20 year old Omar, son of a mixed marriage his father being a former Pakistani journalist (and now is an alcoholic) and his mother being British. He is constantly busy with problems caused by his “hybridity” as he is feeling to be between the two cultures he inhabits. Furthermore Omar falls in love with Johnny who belongs to the white British society and is a former racist. Omar gets the opportunity of gaining success when his rich uncle Nasser- a Pakistani businessman representing wealth in Thatcherite Britain- offers him to take over a launderette. Omar and Johnny become business partners and built up the launderette.
Important aspects
My Beautiful Laundrette represents many topics of postcolonial Britain: The motivation for success in Thatcherite Britain, the issues of race and ethnicity, identity issues of the young British- Asian generation and homosexuality. Kureishi shows that nationality is not an absolute feature that characterises people when he breaks stereotypes and thus creates individual figures.
Further reading:
Buchanan, Bradley. Hanif Kureishi. University of Michigan: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
www.internetprojekte-in-der-schule.de/projekte/laundrette/characters/html/imagemap.html