EBOOK Salman Rushdie
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Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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.
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.