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Description: Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised 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 through to Shalimar the clown.
Amongst the subjects considered in this study are: the intellectual and theoretical basis of Rushdie’s political thought, his use of the English language, his engagement with the establishment literary traditions of East and West, his involvement with diverse literary and filmic genres (including science fiction, satire and tragedy), his analysis of the interlinked processes of globalisation and mass-migration, and his relationship with the current discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism. This definitive guide will be of interest of those working in the fields of contemporary world writing in English, postcolonial studies, twentieth and twenty-first century British Literatures and studies of the novel.
Contents: Part 1: Contexts and intertexts • Introduction • Political and intellectual contexts • Writing in English • Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern • Biographical contexts • Part 2: Novels and criticism • 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 • Notes • IndexISBN - 9788130914534
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Pages : 270
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