An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat. Director Stephen Frears Writer Hanif Kureishi(by) Stars Saeed JaffreyRoshan SethDaniel Day-Lewis

1. Topic
Nation and Race: The other in the
Heterogeneous Interstice in My Beautiful
Launderette
By Shazir Hassan

2. Explaining the topic
• Nation: Stable community, language, history, territory or culture
• Race: Black, White, American or Indian
• The concept of other: member of dominated outgroup, identity
maybe lost, sub to discrimination
• The concept of isms (WAR)
• Plurality

3. Content Terms
• Post Colonialism: Academic study of cultural legacy of colonialism and
imperialism, focusing on humans…. (19th century)
• Colonialism: Partial control over another country occupying with
settlers and exploiting economically.
• Imperialism: Minister Benjamin Disreali (1870)
• Capitalism: (17th century)
• Marxist Liberation: Anti authoritarian aspects of Marxism
• Communism: Equality

4. Application Used
• Cultural Hybridity: Mixture of Colonized Experience (refer to culture
language)
• Diaspora: Dispersion of people from homeland (Jews)
• Culture and Imperialism

5. Bhabha: Nation and Narration (1990)
• He was charged of Bourgeois Academic Privilege, Eurocentric's and
Elitism
• He gave intervention to essentialist reading
• Attempted to define and naturalize third world nations by
homogenous means
• LOCATION OF CULTURE: Unhomely, haunting, Marginlization

6. Hanif Kureishi (1954- )
• British Playwrigth, Novelist of Pakistani & Eng Descent
• The mother, Intimacy Sammy and Rosie
• My beautiful Launrette: 1985 .. Edinberg and London Film Festival
• Academy Award for Best original screenplay (1987)

8. Omer and his
papa

9. Salim,
Naseer
Omer

10. Salim Wife
Cheery

12. Johnny

14. Salim and Omer

15. Belonging

16. I am a
professional
business men
not a
professional
Pakistani
~Naseer

17. Johnny and
Omer caught
by Naseer
after dance
with Racheal

18. Tania to
Rachel