Synopses & Reviews
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnights 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 Rushdies 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.
Synopsis
New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Nadeem Aslam \ 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