Salman Rushdie and visual culture : celebrating impurity, disrupting borders / edited by Ana Cristina Mendes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendes, Ana Cristina.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 21.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Rushdie, Salman--Knowledge--Art.

Rushdie, Salman--Knowledge--Motion pictures.

Art in literature.

Motion pictures in literature.

Art and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Salman Rushdie's novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked - even if central - dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer. This collection brings together, for the first time and into a coherent whole, research on the extensive interplay between the visible and the readable in Rushdie's fiction, from one of the earliest novels - Midnight's Children (1981) -

Contents:

Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture Celebrating Impurity,Disrupting Borders; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Salman Rushdie's "Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy- High-Masala-Art," or Considerations on Undisciplining Boundaries; 2 Merely Connect: Salman Rushdie and Tom Phillips; 3 Beyond the Visible: Secularism and Postcolonial Modernity in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, Jamelie Hassan's Trilogy, and Anish Kapoor's Blood Relations; 4 Living Art: Artistic and Intertextual Re-envisionings of the Urban Trope in The Moor's Last Sigh

5 In Search for Lost Portraits: The Lost Portrait and The Moor's Last Sigh6 Paint, Patronage, Power, and the Translator's Visibility; 7 Show and Tell: Midnight's Children and The Boyhood of Raleigh Revisited; 8 "Nobody from Bombay should be without a basic film vocabulary": Midnight's Children and the Visual Culture of Indian Popular Cinema; 9 Visual Technologies in Rushdie's Fiction: Envisioning the Present in the 'Imagological Age'; 10 Bombay/'Wombay': Refracting the Postcolonial Cityscape in The Ground Beneath Her Feet

11 Screening the Novel, the Novel as Screen: The Aesthetics of the Visual in Fury12 Media Competition and Visual Displeasure in Salman Rushdie's Fiction; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-59358-6

1-283-45935-3

9786613459350

1-136-59359-4

0-203-18306-1

9780203183069

OCLC:

798531259