Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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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 provided by Syndetics

• Foreword
• Series Editors' Preface
• Contributors
• General Introduction
• 1 Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism
• 2 Revisiting
• 3 Rushdie after 9/11
• 4 Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale
• 5 Interview:
• 6 Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction
• 7 The Authentic in Salman Rushdie
• 8 Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon
• 9 Rushdie's Non-fiction
• Further Reading
• Index