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Kureishian
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English
Etymology
From en Kureishi ian.
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.
en 2006 Esterino Adami Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal: essays in diaspora it is his thirst for knowledge and narrative propensity that distinguishes him as a typical Kureishian intellectual.
en 2007 Bradley Buchanan Hanif Kureishi 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.
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