The Cultural Politics Of 'Pop': Hanif Kureishi's Life In Popular Culture
Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 13 November 2006
THIS ESSAY IS on the cultural politics of Pop. It situates an emblematic writer, Hanif Kureishi, in the context of post-war Pop art and culture and the new accelerated, or fast, modernity of the 21st century.
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