The Cambridge companion to Salman Rushdie / edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

Contents:

Rushdie and Bollywood cinema / Vijay Mishra

Rushdie and the English tradition / Peter Morey

The Fatwa and its aftermath / Ruvani Ranasinha

Family and gender in Rushdie's writing / Amina Yaqin

Tricksters and the common herd in Salman Rushdie's Grimus / Ib Johansen

Themes and structures of Midnight's Children / Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reading 'Pakistan' in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Brendon Nichols

The Satanic verses: 'to be born again, first you have to die' / Joel Kuortti

The shorter fiction / Deepika Bahri

The politics of the palimpsest in The Moor's last sigh / Minoli Salgado

The ground beneath her feet and fury : the re-invention of location / Anshuman A. Mondal.

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ISBN:

9781139001670 (ebook)

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