Paket: Postcolonial Consequences

Abitur Baden-Württemberg 2012

Hanif Kureishi (*1954) was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. He has published numerous novels and short stories, but he has also written plays as well as screenplays. In his work he often touches upon topics like nationalism, immigration and race.

The short story “My Son the Fanatic” was first published in Many Voices Many Cultures, Multicultural British Short Stories in 1997.

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Abitur Baden-Württemberg 2012

Die Kurzgeschichte ist eine von elf des literarischen Schwerpunktthemas “One Language – Many Voices – 20th Century English Short Stories”

Zum schnellen Wiederholen und Auffrischen werden Schlagwörter zum Handlungsablauf, zu Hauptpersonen und zu dazugehörigen literarischen Begriffen in Form eines Kreuzworträtsels abgefragt.

Salman Rushdie was born in India in 1947, but moved to Pakistan with his family at the age of 17.
Rushdie has published a number of works (e.g. The Satanic Verses, 1988), a reinterpretation of the story of the Prophet Mohammed. It was banned in a number of countries with a predominantly Muslim population. Rushdie was even forced into hiding due to a life-threat by the Iranian government, which was only repealed in 1998. The short story “Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies” was first published in the New Yorker, and again in 1994 in the book East, West.
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