Salman Rushdie : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eaglestone, Robert, 1968- editor of compilation.

McQuillan, Martin, editor of compilation.

Series:

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface Kenan Malik

Series Editors' Preface

Contributors

General Introduction / Robert Eaglestone and Martin MacQuillan

1. Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism / Ellie Byrne

2. Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and its Legacies / Anshuman Mondal

3. Rushdie after 9/11 / Martin MacQuillan

4. Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale / Andrew Teverson

5. Interview: Homi Bhabha with Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan

6. Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction / Stephen Morton

7. The Authentic in Salman Rushdie / Robert Eaglestone

8. Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon / Ankhi Mukerjee

9. Rushdie's Non-fiction / Daniel O'Gorman

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789386250759

9386250756

9781472543882

1472543882

9781441193773

1441193774

9781441145277

1441145273

OCLC:

853455168