Salman Rushdie and the genesis of secrecy / Vijay Mishra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishra, Vijay, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman.

Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British Indian writer's modernist poetics. Linking criticism to applied theory throughout and connecting Rushdie with radical non-Western humanism and questions about world literature, this book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in uncovering his genesis of secrecy through a close reading of his archive"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : and what so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Archive fever : the "Biografiend" and the genesis of secrecy

Manuscripts in the archive

The riddle of midnight's children : unravelling a text

The affective turn and Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie cinema and Bollywood

Archival modernism

Epilogue : Salman Rushdie humanism and world literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781350094390

1350094390

OCLC:

1048106536