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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stadtler, Florian, editor.

Series:

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Literature in context

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).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rushdie's Contexts - Contextualizing Rushdie

Addendum

Notes

Part I Life

Chapter 1 Salman Rushdie, Biography, and Autobiography

Chapter 2 Salman Rushdie and the Fatwa

Chapter 3 Archival Rushdie

Chapter 4 Salman Rushdie as Public Intellectual

Part II Literary and Creative Contexts

Chapter 5 Salman Rushdie and the Urdu Tradition

Chapter 6 Art-Historical Magic Realism and Rushdie's Twenty-First-Century Politics

Chapter 7 Salman Rushdie and Intertextuality

Chapter 8 Salman Rushdie and Visual Art and Culture

Chapter 9 Rushdie, Sound, and the Auditory Imagination

Part III Historical and Cultural Contexts

Chapter 10 Salman Rushdie and History

Chapter 11 Religious and Ideological Mythologies in Salman Rushdie's Novels

Chapter 12 Revisiting the City in Rushdie's Fiction

Chapter 13 Nationalism and Transnationalism in Salman Rushdie's Novels

Chapter 14 Rushdie and Globalization

Chapter 15 Salman Rushdie and Diasporic Identities

Chapter 16 Rushdie and Secularism

Chapter 17 Orientalism, Terrorism, and Counterinsurgency in Salman Rushdie's Novels

Chapter 18 Salman Rushdie's Upwardly Mobile, Globally Migrating Middle Classes

Chapter 19 Scheherazade and Her Cousins: Rushdie's Women Handcuffed to Contexts

Chapter 20 Filmi Contexts: Rushdie and Cinema

Chapter 21 Salman Rushdie and World-Historical Capitalism

Chapter 22 The Anthropocene and Ecological Limits in the Works of Salman Rushdie

Part IV Critical Theoretical Contexts.

Chapter 23 Salman Rushdie and Postcolonialism

Chapter 24 Salman Rushdie and Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 25 Salman Rushdie and Postmodernism

Part V Reception, Criticism, and Adaptation

Chapter 26 Salman Rushdie's Audiences, Reception, and the Literary Market

Chapter 27 Adapting Rushdie: Radio, Screen, and Stage

Works by Salman Rushdie

Fiction

Nonfiction

Plays

Screenplay

Anthologies

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009085113

1009085115

9781009082624

1009082620

OCLC:

1342784873