Salman Rushdie / Andrew Teverson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teverson, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 259 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Salman Rushdie is one of the world' s most important writers of politicized fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie' s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Teverson also offers detailed critical readings of all Rushdie' s novels, from "Grimus" to "Shalimar the Clown."

Contents:

Part I Contexts and intertexts

2 Political and intellectual contexts 11

3 Writing in English 30

4 Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern 55

5 Biographical contexts 67

Part II Novels and criticism

6 From science fiction to history: Grimus and Midnight's Children 111

7 Tragedy in Shame 136

8 Satire in The Satanic Verses 145

9 Pessoptimistic fictions: Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh 160

10 The pop novel in the age of globalisation: The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury 176

11 Critical overview and conclusion 195

Afterword: Shalimar the Clown 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719070501

0719070503

0719070511

9780719070518

OCLC:

124963760