Salman Rushdie in context / edited by Florian Stadtler, University of Bristol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stadtler, Florian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Rushdie, Salman--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie's life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging, published and read. This book reveals the evolving political trajectory around transnationalism, multiculturalism and its discontents, so prominently engaged with by Salman Rushdie in relation to South Asia, its diasporas, Britain, and the USA in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Focused on the aesthetic, biographical, cultural, creative, historical and literary contexts of his works, the book reveals his deep engagement with processes of decolonization, emergent nationalisms in South Asia, Europe and the USA, and diasporic identity constructions and how they have been affected by globalisation. The book traces how, through his fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie has profoundly shaped the discussion of important questions of global citizenship and migration that continue to resonate today.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009082624 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.