Salman Rushdie

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Robert Eaglestone, Martin McQuillan, Robert Eaglestone, Martin McQuillan

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781441173454
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441193773
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• INTRODUCTION Salman Rushdie Robert Eaglestone
• CHAPTER ONE The Rushdie Canon Ankhi Mukherjee
• CHAPTER TWO Salman Rushdie and the Rise of Postcolonial Studies: Grimus, Midnight’s Children and Shame Eleanor Byrne
• CHAPTER THREE Rushdie as an International Writer: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence Marianne Corrigan
• CHAPTER FOUR Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Stephen Morton
• CHAPTER FIVE Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and Its Legacies Anshuman A. Mondal
• CHAPTER SIX Salman Rushdie’s Post-Nationalist Fairy Tales: Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Luka and the Fire of Life Andrew Teverson
• CHAPTER SEVEN ‘Illuminated by a ray of the sun at midnight’: The Enchantress of Florence Martin McQuillan
• CHAPTER EIGHT Rushdie’s Non-Fiction Daniel O’Gorman
• CHAPTER NINE Po-fa: Joseph Anton Robert Eaglestone
• Further Reading
• References
• Index