Salman Rushdie : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan.

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TextSeries: Contemporary critical perspectives seriesPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 144 pages)Content type:

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9781441193773
1441193774
9781472543882
1472543882
1441145273
9781441145277

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Salman Rushdie.DDC classification:

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PR6068.U757 Z8448 2013eb

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Chronology of Salman Rushdie's life -- Introduction: Salman Rushdie / Robert Eaglestone -- The Rushdie canon / Ankhi Mukherjee -- Salman Rushdie and the rise of postcolonial studies: Grimus, Midnight's Children and Shame / Eleanor Byrne -- Rushdie as an international writer: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence / Marianne Corrigan -- Postcolonial secularism and literary form in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses / Stephen Morton -- Revisiting The Satanic Verses: the fatwa and its legacies / Anshuman Mondal -- Salman Rushdie's post-nationalist fairy tales: Haroun and The Sea of Stories and Luka and The Fire of Life / Andrew Teverson -- 'Illuminated by a ray of the sun at midnight': The Enchantress of Florence / Martin McQuillan -- Rushdie's non-fiction / Dan O'Gorman -- Po-fa: Joseph Anton / Robert Eaglestone.

Summary: "Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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"Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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