Synopses & Reviews
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicized fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Teverson also offers detailed critical readings of all Rushdie's novels, from Grimus to Shalimar the Clown.
About the Author
Andrew Teverson is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University.
Table of Contents
Contexts and intertexts * From science fiction to history:
Grimus and
Midnight's Children * Tragedy in
Shame * Satire in
The Satanic Verses * Pessoptimistic fictions: Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh * The pop novel in the age of globalisation:
The Ground Beneath Her Feet and
Fury * Critical overview and conclusion * Afterword:
Shalimar the Clown