Kureishian

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adjective

Of or relating to Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), English author and playwright with South Asian ancestry, often dealing with themes of race and sexuality.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveKureishian (comparative more Kureishian, superlative most Kureishian)

comparative more Kureishian · superlative most Kureishian

  1. Of or relating to Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), English author and playwright with South Asian ancestry, often dealing with themes of race and sexuality.

    […] it is his thirst for knowledge and narrative propensity that distinguishes him as a typical Kureishian intellectual.

    2006, Esterino Adami, Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal: essays in diaspora
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    There have been similar complaints about The Body, whose introspective, typically Kureishian first-person narrative is at odds with its superficial air of futuristic speculation.

    2007, Bradley Buchanan, Hanif Kureishi

Origin

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