A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Salman Rushdie, this volume discusses Rushdie's life and rise to popularity, the critical response to his work, and key themes surrounding this works.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Salman Rushdie.
2: Biography of Salman Rushdie.
Critical Contexts.
3: Critical Reception.
4: History and Myth: Rewinding the Past in “The Prophet's Hair” and The Moor's Last Sigh.
5: Hybridity and the Chutnification of History.
6: Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth: Parallels and Departures.
Critical Readings.
7: Rushdie's Other Worlds.
8: History as Trope and Atrophying History in Midnights Children.
9: On Reading Midnight's Children Politically.
10: Shame: “A Sort of Modern Fairytale”.
11: Shilling Postcolonial Identity: Acting, Advertising, and the Capitalist Economy in The Satanic Verses.
12: From Multiculturalism to Pop Cosmopolitanism: Transcultural Exchanges in Salman Rushdie's Children's Books.
13: Rushdie as Artist, Migrant, and Humanist in Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line.
14: One and Many in The Moor's Last Sigh.
15: Disorientation and Double Vision in The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
16: Repetition and Listing in Fury.
17: Shalimar the Clown : Love, Betrayal, and the Myths of Colonialism.
