Salman Rushdie (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Eaglestone, Robert; Mcquillan, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441193773
• Artikelnr.: 39483944

Autorenporträt

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students. Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.

Inhaltsangabe

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