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Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. Hissecond novel, Midnight`s Children, is regularly cited as the `Booker of Bookers` and itsimpact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The SatanicVerses, led to the `Rushdie Affair` certainly the most significant literarypolitical eventsince 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 apublic 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 newperspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as apostmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the `Rushdie Affair`; his responses to9/11 and to the `War on Terror`; and issues of more complex philosophical weightarising from his fiction.
ISBN - 9789386250759
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Pages : 176
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