Salman Rushdie - Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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.

About the author

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Eaglestone, Robert (EDT)/ McQuillan Eaglestone, Martin Mcquillan, Martin Eaglestone Mcquillan
• Assisted by: Robert Eaglestone (Editor), Martin Mcquillan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2013
• EAN: 9781441135018
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3501-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives; Contemporary Critical Perspect; Contemporary Critical Perspectives; Contemporary Critical Perspect
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000